Windows Server AppFabric significantly enhances the management experience of WCF and WF services by providing fundamental monitoring capabilities out of the box, as well as providing tools for extending the monitoring metrics that are presented in the Windows Server AppFabric Dashboard.
In this recipe, we will walk through the Windows Server AppFabric Dashboard to provide an interactive orientation of the metrics captured for WCF and WF services.
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If you would like to learn how to enable monitoring for WCF and/or WF services, please refer to the recipes referenced at the end of this recipe in the section titled See also.
We will use the Reservation Service sample WF application that is available for download as part of the resources available for this book.