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Monitor website performance in IIS with Zabbix
Monitor your website performance in IIS with Zabbix and Performance Counters. Scripting in PowerShell and WMI.
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Monitor SQL Server and databases in depth using Zabbix
Monitor Microsoft SQL Server, databases and performance with Zabbix, PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI. Keep SQL Server and databases in top shape and performance up! In this post I show you how you can use Zabbix to monitor those important aspects for database administrators (DBA).
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ASP.NET web application monitoring in Zabbix, part 2
Monitor ASP.NET web applications performance in Zabbix. Take advantage of Windows Server performance counters using Zabbix functions "perf_counter" and "perf_counter_en" in your templates.
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Monitor IIS application pools in Zabbix, part 1
Zabbix can harnas the powers of WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to query the Windows system for data. In Zabbix you use wmi.getall for this. Here is a small introduction to query the number of running w3wp.exe processes per IIS application pool in Zabbix.
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Get IIS Current Connections using PowerShell
Use PowerShell, Performance Counters and WMI to get the current number of active connections to IIS websites. Perfect for monitoring IIS webservers in Zabbix.
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Monitor .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap from your web application
Use Zabbix to monitor your web application and application pool's .NET CLR Garbage Collected heap by utilizing WMI and PowerShell. Keeping track of .NET memory usage enables you to optimize usage and performance further.
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How to enable HTTP/3 in Windows Server 2022
Learn the steps necessary to enable native HTTP/3 & MsQuic in Windows Server 2022 and IIS 10.0 for hosted websites.
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Increase WMI memory to support large volume of queries
WMI stopped working: WmiPrvse.exe would just crash after hitting some memory limit of 512 MB. If you run into the same issue with Windows Management Instrumentation, here is how you can increase WMI Provider Service’s memory quota. Doing so resolved my issues: learn to optimize WMI Provider Host and decrease high CPU usage.
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Getting more out your Windows Performance Counters monitoring for web applications – part 3
This is part 3 about Zabbix monitoring for your websites and ASP.NET applications in IIS. This time I'll show you how to get data from Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process counter, fast, for everey application pool This counter is notorious for its slowness, but you can get data a bit faster. IIS AppPool Insights in Zabbix - because there is always more than one way.
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MySQL InnoDB performance improvement: InnoDB buffer pool instances – Updated!
Are you running into MySQL load problems? Learn how to optimize MySQL InnoDB Buffer Pool for a heavy InnoDB workload by configuring innodb_buffer_pool_instances and increasing read/write I/O threads. Dividing the InnoDB buffer pool into multiple instances can improve Disk I/O. By doing so, you run your database more efficiently and faster. Here is a little help for you.
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Monitor Windows services with PowerShell
How to monitor Windows Servers with PowerShell. As a Windows Server and IIS administrator, you want your Windows services to run at all times. One can monitor Windows services in many, many, ways. Some of our customers websites may depend on certain services, which may be hard to monitor externally. For those Windows services that need local monitoring, I like to schedule a PowerShell script. Here is one...
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Set IIS Application Pool recycle defaults to Specific Times, not Regular Time Interval
By default, an IIS application pool (or "AppPool") recycles on a regular time interval of 1740 minutes, or 29 hours. Sometimes you want to change this regular time interval to a specific time schedule. And when you try to configure this in IIS Manager, it gives you an error. Luckily, AppCmd and PowerShell come to the rescue!
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Fix "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel" error
Today one of our clients received a System.Net.WebException error on a newly deployed ASP.NET web application. Part of the exception was: "System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.". Here is how we resolved that issue.
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ASP.NET performance: what to keep in mind
(ASP).NET programmers have to keep certain rules in mind when developing high performance ASP.NET applications, and/or optimizing your existing ASP.NET website. A lot of information is available on this subject. In this post I'll share some valuable posts, and I continue to update this post when I find something new. Posts about ASP.NET performance I frequently pass on to customers so they can improve their ASP.NET web applications.
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PHP with WinCache on IIS
Learn how to install PHP on Windows Server IIS. With Windows Cache Extension for PHP (WinCache) and a custom php.ini path. WinCache enabled PHP gives you great performance for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla websites, and decreases CPU usage. A custom php.ini file path offers more flexibility.