DX Application Performance Management

  • 1.  app availability in IIS app pool

    Posted Apr 16, 2015 07:00 AM

    hi,

     

    what's your/the best way how to monitor whether a specific app from an IIS app pool is up? how to trigger an alert if i.e WWW_ROOT_PF goes down (image below)?

     

    if the app stops, the agent for the specific app is not present anymore in the investigator, so there cant be used a treshold to trigger an alert either. in perfmon metrics i cant see any metric that we could use to trigger an alert, if a specific app goes down.

     

    any idea please?

     

    thank you,

    stefan

     

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  • 2.  Re: app availability in IIS app pool

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 16, 2015 03:16 PM

    From the PerfMonCollectorAgent, you can monitor counter "Application Restarts" as a means to know when the app pool stopped/restarted.



  • 3.  Re: app availability in IIS app pool

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 16, 2015 03:23 PM

    You can also monitor "Current Application Pool State" --

     

    • Description: The current status of the application pool (1 - Uninitialized, 2 - Initialized, 3 - Running, 4 - Disabling, 5 - Disabled, 6 - Shutdown Pending, 7 - Delete Pending)


  • 4.  Re: app availability in IIS app pool

    Posted Apr 17, 2015 08:51 AM

    Hi Hiko,

     

    it informs me about the app pool (that i dont need), but not about an exact application in the pool.

    i thought about "Applications Running" counter as well, but it doesnt say anything about which exact application went down and i would need that information.

     

    some other idea please?



  • 5.  Re: app availability in IIS app pool

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 17, 2015 10:38 AM

    There are good indicators under "ASP.NET Apps v[2|4].*" depending on what framework you're using. Not exactly up/down, but an app specific look at behavior.



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  • 7.  Re: app availability in IIS app pool

    Posted Apr 29, 2015 03:20 AM

    yes, i checked them, but unfortunately i couldnt find any specific metric for an exact application status (up/down).

     

    therefore i'd like to ask you whether you have some idea how we could monitor if an exact app is up in different way (maybe not via perfmon)?

     

    thank you



  • 8.  Re: app availability in IIS app pool
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 29, 2015 01:05 PM

    MS IIS apps do not really have a concept of up/down since apps will shutdown if there is no activity and it reaches the timeout threshold.