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Microsoft IIS

If you use Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to host your applications, you can instrument your IIS Server to bring IIS specific metrics into OpsVerse ObserveNow for more comprehensive monitoring. Follow the steps below to enable the IIS Integration.

Prerequisite: OpsVerse Agent has been installed on the same Windows machine where IIS is running following these instructions

Enable Performance Counters on IIS

Start Server Manager, Navigate to the Local Server tab, scroll down to the Performance section, Right click the server and select Start Performance Counters

Update Windows Exporter Configuration

Navigate to C:\Program Files\Grafana Agent and open up windows-agent-config.yaml. On the collectors > enabled add "iis" at the end. For eg.

enabled: cpu,os,cs,process,system,net,time,memory,logical_disk,service,iis

Restart Windows Exporter

In the start bar, type services.msc and hit enter to bring up the list of running services. Find opsverse-windows-exporter, right click on it, and choose Restart to restart the service.

And that's it. You should now see IIS specific metrics flow into your ObserveNow stack

Visualization

OpsVerse offers a dashboard for visualizing IIS Metrics which can be enabled on request in your ObserveNow Grafana

IIS Monitoring Dashboard
IIS Monitoring Dashboard