Monitoring Microsoft BizTalk Server
This section explains what Nodinite monitors and how it translates technical data into actionable monitoring states. You can also leverage a wide range of remote commands—Actions—to swiftly resolve BizTalk Server issues. For a deeper dive into remote management, see Managing BizTalk Server.
Nodinite auto-discovers all your deployed BizTalk Server artifacts. Simply deploy new BizTalk Server applications, and Nodinite will automatically detect, monitor, and list them in your Monitor Views.
Monitoring Features
- State Evaluation – Ensure BizTalk Server and all deployed artifacts maintain the intended run-time state
If Nodinite can't check the state of your BizTalk Server, chances are no one else can either
- Metrics – Visualize real-time performance with graphs, widgets, and actionable alerts (e.g., throttling thresholds)
- Statistics – Gain insights into which BizTalk Applications experience suspended messages over time
- Health Checks – Keep your environment healthy and in sync, with features similar to the Microsoft Terminator support tool
- Automatic Discovery – Nodinite agents use Microsoft SDKs to automatically discover and organize your BizTalk Server artifacts. Sharing or restricting access to any artifact is easy and secure.
State evaluation for BizTalk Server
Overview of one BizTalk Server group, also available as a widget on the Dashboard
Each artifact (for example, one receive location) appears in Nodinite as a unique Resource. If you have 42 deployed receive locations, you'll see 42 Resources in Nodinite.
- The Application name is based on the BizTalk Server Application name
- All artifacts of a given type belong to an appropriate category
Nodinite groups monitoring capabilities for the BizTalk Server agent as Resources by Categories. Each Category is unique to its Monitoring Agent.
The BizTalk Monitoring Agent provides the following Categories:
List of BizTalk Server Categories
Nodinite also enables Remote Actions on most resources via the Web Client or programmatically through the Web API.
To execute remote actions, ensure you meet the Prerequisites. Users must log in to Nodinite with Windows Credentials and be assigned a Monitor View with BizTalk Resources where Remote Actions are permitted. See Add or manage Monitor View for more details.
Tip
You can fine-tune user access (using Roles and Monitor Views) to specific BizTalk artifacts—by application, category, or even individual artifact.
Table with overview of all monitoring features for BizTalk Server
* This feature requires using a Monitoring Database
Alert history for BizTalk Server
During root cause analysis, it's helpful to understand how often your BizTalk Server issues occur. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for any time span—across all BizTalk Servers or for individual artifacts. See Add or manage Monitor View for details.
| Search | Resource history |
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| Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |  |
| Alert history for the selected BizTalk artifact |
Frequently asked questions
Use the troubleshooting guide to find answers to common questions and known issues.