Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments are performance sensitive. There are many components both datacenter-side and client-side which must be optimally performing together to deliver a consistent and performing virtualized apps and desktops solution. With many different components in play, it can often be a challenging task for a Citrix administrator to determine the impact or cause of a Citrix related problem. Citrix troubleshooting nevertheless becomes challenging.

Ensuring that a Citrix infrastructure is working well is no easy job! Here are several free tools and scripts that can help you with your daily activities.

Virtualization technology is being widely adopted thanks to the flexibility, agility, reliability and ease of administration it offers. At the same time, any IT technology – hardware or software – is only as good as its maintenance and upkeep, and VMware virtualization is no different.

Monitoring, observability and analytics have become common phraseology in the Citrix world. Alongside every Citrix project, whether it’s a new deployment, expansion, upgrade, or cloud migration, what is essentially needed in the IT toolkit is analytics. Analytics means not just data, but insights obtained through continuous monitoring; periodic measurements of critical performance metrics that convey a lot about the health and availability of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session.

The biggest challenge when a user complains of slow application is diagnosing why it’s slow: Is it due to a code-level issue or a database issue? Should we call the DBA or the application manager? Performance problems with the database can cause up to 70% of all application performance issues in production, according to consensus among database practitioners and experts.