What is Apica ProxySniffer?
Apica ProxySniffer is a network monitoring and analysis tool designed specifically for analyzing HTTP and HTTPS traffic flowing between clients and servers. It works by capturing packets as they pass through a forward or reverse proxy server.
Once installed on the proxy server, ProxySniffer can provide deep inspection of requests and responses including headers, cookies, caching information, encodings and more. This allows it to generate detailed performance metrics and statistics to help identify bottlenecks, slow pages, failed requests and other issues.
Some key features of Apica ProxySniffer include:
- Real-time and historical monitoring of web traffic
- Waterfall diagrams showing page load performance
- Cache hit/miss reporting
- Content breakdown by type (HTML, JS, CSS, images)
- Alerting for 4xx/5xx status codes
- Failed request tracing and replay
- Customizable dashboards and reporting
ProxySniffer generates extensive logs and analytics from captured traffic which provides admins, developers and other stakeholders visibility into the health and user experience of web-based services and applications.