Monitoring tools Sharepoint 2013

Overview of monitoring tools

There are many tools for you to monitor SharePoint 2013 and troubleshoot problems. Different tools cover different aspects of the environment, although there may be overlapped areas. Consider which tools can maximize your monitoring benefits. The following monitoring tools are available:

• SharePoint Health Analyzer
  On the Central Administration home page, click Monitoring, Health Analyzer. You can use this built-in feature to analyze and resolve problems in the following areas: security, performance, configuration, and availability. Health Analyzer rules are predefined and run at scheduled intervals, such as hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly. If an error is detected, the corresponding rule is triggered. Each rule has a brief explanation about why the error occurs and provides you with a link to a detailed article that contains step-by-step guidance to resolve the problem. When you take actions by following the guidance, you can re-run the rule to verify resolution. If the error does not appear in the list, the problem is resolved.
• Timer Jobs
  On the Central Administration home page, click Monitoring, Timer Jobs. SharePoint 2013 uses configurable timer jobs to collect health data and then writes the data to the logging folder and to the Logging database. The data is then used in reports to display the health status of the farm servers.
  You can reschedule a timer job, enable or disable it, and run it on demand. Daily, weekly, and monthly schedules also include a window of execution. The timer service will select a random time within this interval to start running the timer job on each applicable server. This feature is appropriate for high-load jobs that run on multiple servers on the farm.
  
  

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  Running timer jobs at the same time on all servers on the farm can affect system performance. You must schedule them carefully to avoid overlap with other timer jobs.

  
  
• Reporting
  On the Central Administration home page, click Monitoring, Reporting. This feature lets you configure diagnostic logging and data collection, and view administrative and health reports. Because some configurations will use up drive space and adversely affect system performance you must carefully plan what configurations to set.
• Windows PowerShell
  Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool for monitoring SharePoint 2013. You can run commands to obtain the exact logs that you want to view. For more information, see View diagnostic logs in SharePoint 2013.
• System Center 2012 - Operations Manager with System Center Management Pack for SharePoint Server 2013
  System Center 2012 - Operations Manager is a powerful monitoring platform that lets you monitor services, devices, and operations for many computers in a single console. By using Operations Manager, you can view status, health, performance information, and alerts generated for availability, performance, configuration and security situations. For more information, see Operations Manager (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=226376).
  To use Operations Manager to monitor SharePoint products, you must install System Center Management Pack for SharePoint Server 2013. You can use this tool to monitor events, collect SharePoint component-specific performance counters in one central location, and raise alerts for operator intervention as necessary. Download and install System Center Monitoring Pack for SharePoint Server or System Center Monitoring Pack for SharePoint Foundation.
• Event Viewer
  Event Viewer is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. It lets you browse and manage event logs. It is a very handy tool for troubleshooting problems. You can filter for specific events across multiple logs, and reuse useful event filters as custom views. For more information, see Event Viewer (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=253618).
• SharePoint Developer Dashboard
  This tool provides diagnostic information that can help a developer or system administrator analyze performance of SharePoint Web pages. This utility can help if a page is loading slowly, a Web Part is not performing, or if a database query on the page is not performing. The SharePoint Developer Dashboard is disabled by default. You can enable it by using Windows PowerShell. For more information, see SharePoint Developer Dashboard (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=199580).
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
  WMI provides many classes for you to monitor the SharePoint 2013 environment. For each manageable resource, there is a corresponding WMI class. For more information, see WMI Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=188652).
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  SQL Server Reporting Services provides a full range of ready-to-use tools and services to help you create, deploy, and manage reports for your organization. It also has programming features that let you extend and customize reporting functionality. By using SQL Server Reporting Services, you can create interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from relational, multidimensional, or XML-based data sources. You can publish reports, schedule report processing, or access reports on-demand. You can use SQL Server Reporting Services to create reports based on predefined models, and to interactively explore data within the model. You can select from a variety of viewing formats, export reports to other applications, and subscribe to published reports. The reports that you create can be viewed over a Web-based connection or as part of a Windows application or SharePoint site. For more information, see SQL Server Reporting Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=253387).