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MSMQ Adapter Performance Counters

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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:MSMQ Receive Adapter and the BizTalk:MSMQ Send Adapter performance object categories:

Category Counter Description
BizTalk:MSMQ Receive Adapter Bytes received Total number of bytes received by the MSMQ receive adapter. The counter is incremented after a message is completely read by the MSMQ receive adapter from the source queue.
Bytes received/Sec Number of bytes received by the MSMQ receive adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have been completely read by the MSMQ receive adapter from the source queue.
Messages received Total number of messages received by the MSMQ receive adapter. The counter is incremented after a message is completely read by the MSMQ receive adapter from the source queue.
Messages received/Sec Number of messages received by the MSMQ receive adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have been completely read by the MSMQ receive adapter from the source queue.
BizTalk:MSMQ Send Adapter Bytes sent Total number of bytes sent by the MSMQ send adapter. The counter is incremented only for messages that have reached the destination queue.
Bytes sent/Sec Number of bytes sent by the MSMQ send adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have reached the destination queue.
Messages sent Total number of messages sent by the MSMQ send adapter. The counter is incremented only for messages that have reached the destination queue.
Messages sent/Sec Number of messages sent by the MSMQ send adapter per second. The counter applies only to messages that have reached the destination queue.

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:MSMQ 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

Using LoadGen 2007 with MSMQ
Optimizing Performance of the MSMQ Adapter