Performance Data Collection

BizTalk360 allows you to configure counter categories for all environments in one place. Here the counter category of various server types says BizTalk, SQL, IIS, Windows will be available. You can optimize the performance data collection by using the Manage counter categories option. This allows you to select the required performance metrics category for each server. So that the Analytics service will start collecting data for only the selected.

• Go to BizTalk360 Environment settings >> Analytics >> Performance data collection.
• Click on "Manage counter categories". Will open a blade & display list of Counter categories available.
• You can select Counter categories based on their business requirement.

Note: If new categories are added, the new counters will be generated in the next cycle. Same will be shown in "Manage Metrics" blade.

Enabling Performance Data Collection at Environment level

The performance data collection can be enabled for an environment by navigating to (Environment Settings->Analytics Performance Data Collection).

• Click and enable the performance data collection toggle. 
• While configuring counters in Manage Metrics section, it will display only counters based on the selection made in "Master Counters Configuration".

If you required some other category in the counter list, you could again configure in the "Master Counters Configuration". Note: If new categories are added, the new counters will be generated in the next cycle. Same will be shown in "Manage Metrics" blade.

Once its enabled BizTalk360 Analytics service will start collecting performance data for all the servers based on the selection made in "Manage metrics" under the respective environment.

Manage Performance Data Collection

BizTalk360 allows you to optimize the performance data collection using the Manage Metrics option for each server under an environment. With this Manage Metrics option, users can choose the required performance metrics for each server, enabling BizTalk360 to start collecting data only for that metrics.

For instance, if you have a multi-server setup - BizTalk Server, SQL Server, IIS configured in different machines, you may expect different performance metrics from different servers. However, you might not want to have SQL-related performance metrics data in the BizTalk server machine. By using the “Manage Metrics” option you can define what metrics are needed for each and every server. This way the Analytics service will start collecting data only for that selected metrics. This avoids huge database growth and improves performance.