Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Performance Monitoring

Performance monitoring is one of the most overlooked best practices in SharePoint Server 2007 implementations. Without monitoring, you don’t know the health of your farm and will be alerted by users, instead of the system, when an application fails. With a proper monitoring solution, you many times will be notified before a hard failure actually occurs. There are many who want to monitor their solution and just don’t know how. A very common question is, "What performance counters do I monitor, and what are the acceptable thresholds?" Unfortunately, there isn’t a single answer for most performance counters, but there is definitely a method to define them for your implementation. Some counters, such as Processor Queue Length, ...