One of the biggest benefits of Windows Server AppFabric is that it makes monitoring and troubleshooting WCF and WF4 services much easier by providing a core set of monitoring metrics that allow you to gain visibility into the status and health of your services, both at a glance and at a granular level of detail.
Enabling these monitoring capabilities is simply a matter of turning monitoring on and specifying the level of verbosity you are interested in by selecting a profile.
In addition, you can build your own tracking profiles for gaining a deep understanding of the events, messages, and information flowing in, through, and out of your services.
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Throughout this chapter, a sample WF service called "Reservation Service" is used to demonstrate various capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric.
As the name of the application suggests, the Reservation Service simulates a real-world scenario that includes a restaurant reservation workflow service wherein a patron requests a reservation...