API Request and added pearl processor load

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Hi everyone,

Often times I’m on show site with 20-30 pearls on a network that my teams needs to monitor and maintain. We have developed a very light weight app that takes a list of ip addresses, and every couple of seconds the app sends an HTTP call to each pearl for some basic “are you there? what are you doing?” statuses, as well as start/stop/ recordings/ open in a web browser for full control options.

I’m curious what additional load that this will add to the pearl. If one of my team has the app open and is monitoring, and then another team member launches our app, and another, etc… Will the pearls eventually get so bogged down with api request they stop working? is there a way to monitor what load we are adding to the pearl with the use of our app? or is there a more efficient way to monitor the pearls in a team environment?

Thanks in advance for any advice or direction!
Will-

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Eventually it would overload the Pearl with a huge number of concurrent connections/requests.
We do not have an precise number for that, as it can vary by config and usage/config.
The best way to see how it is impacting the system would be to watch the Overall System Load % on the Info page of the WebUI.
Have one person watch that number while a few more send requests from your app, see what impact it has.
I would expect it to see it in spikes and not a consistent load.

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