Overview

The Exchange Performance Event Monitor watches a set of commonly-used Exchange performance counters and alerts you if the thresholds you specify have been exceeded.

Use Cases

• Monitoring operational metrics for Exchange Server systems

Microsoft Exchange Versions

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Internal Aggregate Delivery Queue Length (All Internal Queues)"

Total size of all queues used for internal message delivery.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: External Aggregate Delivery Queue Length (All External Queues)"

Total size of all queues used for external message delivery.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length"

Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length is the number of messages in the active mailbox queues.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length"

Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length is the number of messages waiting for retries.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Submission Queue Length"

Submission Queue Length is the number of messages in the Submission queue.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Unreachable Queue Length"

Unreachable Queue Length is the number of messages in the Unreachable queue.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Messages Submitted Per Second"

Messages Submitted Per Second is the number of messages that have been queued in the Submission queue per second.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Messages Completed Delivery Per Second"

Messages Completed Delivery Per Second is the number of messages that are delivered per second.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport Queues: Messages Queued for Delivery Per Second"

Messages Queued for Delivery Per Second is the number of messages that have been queued for delivery per second.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport SmtpSend: Connections Current"

Number of SMTP connections currently being used to send messages.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport SmtpSend: Messages Sent/sec"

Number of SMTP messages being sent per second.

Alert based on "MSExchangeTransport SmtpSend: Message Bytes Sent/sec"

Number of bytes per second of messages being sent by SMTP.

Alert based on "MSExchangePop3: Connections Current"

Number of POP3 connections currently active.

Alert based on "MSExchangeImap4: Current Connections"

Number of IMAP4 connections currently active.

Alert based on "MSExchange OWA: Current Users"

Number of users currently using Outlook Web Access.

Alert based on "MSExchange Database: Database Page Fault Stalls/sec"

Rate of database page fault stalls. Expected to be less than 10.

Alert based on "MSExchange Database: Version Buckets Allocated"

Number of version buckets allocated. Expected to be less than 200.

Authentication and Security

The account used for authentication must be a member of the Performance Monitor Users group or have admin rights.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point
MSExchange Database\Version Buckets Allocated\_total
MSExchange Database Version Buckets Allocated\_total
MSExchange OWA\Current Users\_total
MSExchangelmap4\Current Connections\_total
MSExchangePop3\Connections Current\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues External Aggregate Delivery Queue Length (All External Queues)\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues\Internal Aggregate Delivery Queue Length (All Internal Queues)\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues Messages Completed Delivery Per Second\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues Messages Queued for Delivery Per Second\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues Messages Submitted Per Second\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues\Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length\_total
MSExchange Transport Queues Unreachable Queue Length\_total
SMSExchange Transport SmtpSend\Connections Current\_total
MSExchange Transport SmtpSend Message Bytes Sent/sec\_total
MSExchange Transport SmtpSend Messages Sent/sec\_total

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.