While some enterprises provide a service directly to consumers using internally developed software, almost all enterprises have some form of internally developed line of business applications. These are often based around the Microsoft .NET framework, but unfortunately monitoring the applications is often not considered during the development cycle.

Fortunately, Microsoft has developed an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) module within SCOM that allows for deep monitoring of a .NET application without the need for any change to the developed code. The following recipe shows how to enable this monitoring and to start receiving alerts.