Monitoring ADF 12c Client Request Time with Click History

You must be excited to read this post, I will describe one very useful feature, available in ADF 12c. This feature - Click History. You can follow steps described by Duncan Mills, to enable and read click history data in server log. There is one more option available - we can read click history data from ADF request (captured by filter class) and log it in custom way (for later analysis). Click history gives such information as client request start/end time (you can calculate client request duration), component client ID, component type, action event type, etc. All this is useful to understand application performance perceived by the client.

Download sample application - DashboardApp.zip (it contains JET libraries, to render JET content within ADF). To test click history and view generated statistics, click on any button and selection component. Click history returns previous action statistics. Let's click on Cancel button:

You should see similar XML message printed in the log (click history statistics data):

To view it in readable way, you can copy it into XML file and format in JDEV:

Logged properties, useful to track client request performance:

1. CID - ECID number, identifies request
2. CST - client request start time
3. CET - client request end time
4. ETY - client event type
5. CLD - client component ID
6. CTY - client component type

XML message can be parsed and property values can be logged to DB for performance history analysis.

To enable click history, you only need to set parameter (true) in web.xml oracle.adf.view.faces.context.ENABLE_ADF_EXECUTION_CONTEXT_PROVIDER:

To read click history data from ADF request, we need to define custom filter in web.xml. Register filter under Faces Servlet:

In the filter, override doFilter and retrieve oracle.adf.view.rich.monitoring.UserActivityInfo parameter (this will return click history XML string, as above):