In this chapter, we will cover:
Collecting events from WCF and WF services
Viewing and classifying events in the AppFabric Dashboard
Enabling tracing and evaluating trace logs with WCF
Creating a customized tracking profile for WF services
Accessing the Monitoring DB
Building a custom dashboard
Using monitoring database cmdlets
Monitoring cache cluster health
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...