Cache performance dashboard

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What does this dashboard tell me?

The Cache Performance dashboard lets you see at a glance the value of your Apigee cache. The dashboard helps you visualize the benefit of the cache in terms of lower latency and reduced load backend servers.

Note: Data delay interval
After API calls are made to proxies, it may take up to 10 minutes for the data to appear in dashboards, custom reports, and management API calls.

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The Cache Performance dashboard

To access the Cache Performance dashboard:

1. Sign in to the Apigee UI.
2. Select Analyze > API Metrics > Cache Performance.

The dashboard opens as shown below:

What does this dashboard measure?

Metric	Description
Average cache hit rate	The rate of calls hitting the cache measured against total API traffic.
All cache hits	The sum of calls that hit the cache.
Cache hits by app	Sum of calls hitting the cache broken down by developer app.
Average time with cache	The average amount of time for an API call when it hits the cache.
Average time without cache	The average amount of time for an API call when it does not hit the cache.
Cache improvement	Compares the average time with cache and average time without cache, giving you an idea of the overall effect of the cache on API performance.

What else do I need to know about this dashboard?

You can measure cache performance for all API proxies in your organization, or you can select individual ones.

This dashboard uses standard controls, like the date and data aggregation selectors, hovering over graphs for more context, exporting data to CSV, and so on. To learn more, see Using the analytics dashboards.

Note: The performance ratios may appear incorrect for the first few minutes for new data. This is because with a small number of data points, there can be a difference in the number of data points being compared to create the ratios. This inconsistency will resolve itself within a few minutes as it collects more data points. If the performance ratios still appear incorrect, refresh the page.