File Adapter Performance Counters

Performance counters allow you to monitor specific aspects of work performed on the site or system by service. Performance counters can help you identify and troubleshoot server performance issues.

The following performance counters are accessible for each host instance under the BizTalk:FILE Receive Adapter and the BizTalk:FILE Send Adapter performance object categories:

Category	Counter	Description
BizTalk:FILE Receive Adapter	Bytes received	Total number of bytes received by the file receive adapter. The counter is incremented after a message is completely read by the adapter from the file system.
	Byte received/Sec	Number of bytes received by the file receive adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have been completely read by the file adapter from the file system.
	Delete retries	Number of times the file receive adapter attempts to delete a file that has been read.
	Lock failures	Number of times the file receive adapter failed to lock the file.
	Lock failures/sec	Number of times the file receive adapter failed to lock the file per second.
	Messages received	Total number of messages received by the file receive adapter. The counter is incremented after a message is completely read by the file receive adapter from the file system.
	Messages received/Sec	Number of messages received by the file receive adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have been completely read by the file receive adapter from the file system.
	Time to build batch	Average time taken by file receive adapter to build a batch.
BizTalk:FILE Send Adapter	Bytes sent	Total number of bytes sent by the file send adapter. The counter is incremented only for messages that have been completely written to file system.
	Bytes sent/Sec	Number of bytes sent by the file send adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have been completely written to file system.
	Messages sent	Total number of messages sent by the file send adapter. The counter is incremented only for messages that have been completely written to file system.
	Messages sent/Sec	Number of messages sent by the file send adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have been completely written to file system.

To access performance counters

Use the following steps to access the performance counters.

If you are using Windows 2008

1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Performance Monitor.

2. In the Performance Monitor dialog box, expand Monitoring Tools, select Performance Monitor, and then click Add.

3. In the Add Counters dialog box, from the Available Counters list, expand the BizTalk:FILE performance counter object and select the counters to be monitored

4. In the Instances of Selected object list, select the specific instances to be monitored for the selected counters and then click Add. To select all available counter instances, select <All instances>.

5. After adding the counters, click OK.

   The selected performance counters appear on the Performance Monitor screen.

See Also

Planning for Sustained Performance