Monitoring Business Central server

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Overview

This section covers two ways to watch a Business Central server instance on-premises. The first is performance counters, which show how the instance behaves: client sessions, SQL connections, data cache efficiency and scheduled task execution. The second is server events, covered in the subtopic on monitoring server events.

The server events subtopic explains the admin, operational and debug events the server writes through Event Tracing for Windows. It describes how to view them in Event Viewer or PowerShell, how to collect trace data with Logman, Performance Monitor or PerfView, and how to limit telemetry traces.

Start with the performance counters page for a quick view of instance health. Move to the server events pages when you need to diagnose specific behavior or collect detailed traces.

Key points

• Performance counters track client sessions, SQL connections, data cache efficiency and scheduled task execution.
• Counters are used to monitor server instance health and performance.
• The server writes admin, operational and debug events through Event Tracing for Windows.
• Events can be viewed in Event Viewer or PowerShell.
• Trace data can be collected with Logman, Performance Monitor or PerfView.
• Telemetry traces can be limited.
• The server events subtopic has 9 pages.

Subtopics

• Monitoring server events on-premises (9 pages)

More Learn pages

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters that are available for monitoring instances.

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