Monitoring SharePoint Applications

Monitoring SharePoint applications enables administrators to gather and analyze crucial information regarding the use of their sites that might be critical for maintaining customer's trust and e-commerce edge.

Windows HTTP Service Availability relates to whether the Windows HTTP Service (WinHTTP) is available to service requests from applications.

Parameter	Description
Availability	Displays the availability of the SharePoint Virtual Site (True or False)
HTTP Response Code	Displays the response code of the current Virtual Site
HTTP Response Time	Displays the response time of the current Virtual Site (in milliseconds)

Web service is closely monitored to detect any performance decrease, to ensure that connections are properly handled or to report request execution parameters. When a parameter threshold is breached, an alarm is triggered in the console.

Parameter	Description
Received Bytes /sec	The number of bytes that are received by the virtual server each second (in KB).
Sent Bytes /sec	The number of bytes that are sent by the virtual server each second (in KB).
Current Connections	The number of active connections to the virtual server.
Current ISAPI Extension Requests	The number of ISAPI extension requests processed by the virtual server.
ISAPI Extension Requests/sec	The rate, in seconds, at which the virtual server is processing ISAPI extension requests.