Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Chapter 12. Performance Tuning, Monitoring, and Tracing

Monitoring, performance tuning, and tracing are essential parts of Web administration. You monitor servers to ensure that they’re running smoothly and to troubleshoot problems as they occur. You tune the performance of servers to achieve optimal performance based on the current system resources and traffic load. When you have problems that cannot be resolved by performance tuning or diagnosed through standard monitoring, you can use tracing to get detailed diagnostic information about failed requests that allows you to track a request from its start, through individual filter and module notifications, to its end. With the addition of performance statistics, authentication and authorization ...