TAL Performance Monitor

This tool is designed as a getting useful information out of TAL applications.

The information it gathers is sent via a GET request to the tpmdaemon.

TPM is designed to run on all devices and it is a bug if we cannot retrieve the information from a device. Raise them if you find them!

Dependencies

1. This relies on TAL.
2. To retrieve "frames per second" for animations you need to run a modified version of TAL.

Running

1. You need to include a reference to the TAL performance monitor script in your TAL application AFTER the require.js definition.
2. Start the server by running ./tpmdaemon/server. By default it runs on port 3000. You can see the options by running ./tpmdaemon/server --help
3. Modify talperformancemonitor.js to point to your server.
4. Load your TAL application and you should the stats output to standard out by the server.

Known issues

• To get the information from a device you will need to disable your firewall on Mac OSX.

Useful links

• To get statsd and Graphite set up on Mac OSX