KBI 311631 Monitoring Message Queue Using Argent Guardian Ultra

Version

Argent Guardian Ultra – All versions

Date

Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Summary

Argent Guardian Ultra can be used to monitor message queue in Windows servers

Technical Background

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) facilitates applications that run at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be offline for brief periods

Microsoft provides performance counters for MSMQ – including messages in queues, machine-wide incoming and outgoing messages per second, and the total messages in all queues

These performance counters can be monitored and unfavorable situations can be alerted using Argent Guardian Ultra

This can be configured as shown in the screenshot below:

Resolution

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