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

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

To access performance counters

Use the following steps to access the performance counters.

If you are using Windows Server 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:SOAP 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.