The document discusses best practices for monitoring the health of web applications, particularly focusing on IIS and SharePoint. It outlines key performance indicators and metrics to track, such as login performance and application pool functionality, and suggests monitoring tools for different web apps including Apache and Tomcat. Additionally, it provides information on upcoming webinars and resources related to optimizing web app performance.

1. KEEP YOUR WEB APPS
RUNNING LEAN & MEAN
26 MAY, 2016

2. » Introduction
» Problem Solving IIS
» SharePoint Web Site Health
» What about other Web Apps?
AGENDA
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3. Problem Solving IIS
DETECTION OF ISSUES WITHIN IIS
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4. • What should I be monitoring to
ensure IIS health in Windows?
oLogon Performance
• Users are indicating they
are experiencing slow logins
to a web-based application
• Standard windows
performance counters will
work, but can be time
consuming to research
DETECTION OF ISSUES WITHIN IIS
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5. • What should I be monitoring to ensure IIS health in Windows?
• Default Site and Standard IIS functionality
• Is the site online?
• Certificate functionality
• Application Pool functionality
DETECTION OF ISSUES WITHIN IIS
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6. • Overview of Statistics, and
how much data is accessed
oHTML Requests
oImage Requests
oCSS Requests
oJava Requests
DETECTION OF ISSUES WITHIN IIS
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7. • Detection of issues by location
oCan often be a challenge for support center to determine
who, what, and where an issue is occurring
• Granular configuration within monitoring can ensure that
this information is known and visible quickly
DETECTION OF ISSUES WITHIN IIS
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8. SharePoint Web Monitoring
SHAREPOINT
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9. • Number of Connections to the
Application
o When load balancing
SharePoint front end, may want
to clear connections from one
SharePoint server to the other.
o How to determine when the
server is ready for maintenance
o Without User Impact
SHAREPOINT
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10. • SharePoint High Level Site Availability
oHome page vs Team Sites being online
• Locational awareness within monitoring
SHAREPOINT
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11. • Global organization
oMonitor latencies between locations
oDNS
oGeneral high level availability
SHAREPOINT
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12. What about other Web Apps?
OTHER WEB APPS
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13. • Apache
oMonitor server metrics
• CPU and Memory
• Server uptime
oWeb server metrics
• Incoming requests
• Total traffic
• Idle Workers
• Server up time
OTHER WEB APPS
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14. • Tomcat
oMemory
• Heap and non-heap
• Pool
• Garbage
oThreads
oRequests
OTHER WEB APPS
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15. Q&A
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Questions?

16. • Upcoming Events
o Fine-Tune Your Flash Storage for Better Performance Webinar: June 8, 2016
o Get High-Octane Virtual Datacenter Performance Webinar: June 15, 2016
o ThwackCamp: September 2016
• Want to continue the conversation?
o www.thwack.com
• Want additional information about SolarWinds Web App Monitoring Tools?
o IIS
o Sharepoint
o Oracle WebLogic
o Apache
UPCOMING EVENTS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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