Windows Application and Service Monitors
Track key metrics with Windows application and service monitors
Monitor Windows services and applications
Windows services constantly run in the background of your server operations and can be critical to end users. To prevent downtime, SolarWinds® ipMonitor® offers around-the-clock Windows application monitoring to help you identify performance issues in essential services.
Windows application and service monitors in SolarWinds ipMonitor include:
- Active Directory monitor
- File Directory monitor
- Drive Space monitor
- Event Log monitor
- File Property and Watching monitors
- Kerberos 5 monitor
- MAPI User Experience monitor
- SQL Server monitor
- Windows WMI monitor
Attach new monitors easily to devices, with agentless discovery and guided configuration
Configuring a new monitor is designed to be easier with the SolarWinds ipMonitor guided configuration process. First, the Startup Wizard can walk you through agentless discovery for a wide range of on-premises and virtual services. Then, you can configure your new monitor with minimal input, following unique configuration wizards for your different services. From the configuration tab on your ipMonitor dashboard, you can add and edit monitors—and even attach multiple monitors to the same device.
View monitor status from a central dashboard, with widgets for each monitored service
To minimize downtime, your Windows services monitors need to be accessible and streamlined. SolarWinds ipMonitor is built to take usability to the next level with a centralized dashboard containing clickable widgets for each of your monitors. You can organize your widgets into categories and view updated data reports for each service from the Add Widgets menu on your main dashboard. To view color-coded service status, simply select a monitor from your Edit Monitor menu.
Get alerts sent directly to your inbox for rapid response to downtime
Real-time alerting is key to an effective response to downtime. With SolarWinds ipMonitor, you can receive custom alerts sent directly to the inbox of your choice—whether it’s a brief alert via text message or email, or a detailed report using a Windows Event Log file. With over 14 different types of alerts, you can quickly identify the monitor detecting performance issues and address downtime before it affects your end-user experience.
Test monitors before use with the predictive downtime simulator
To implement an effective Windows service monitoring strategy, you need to understand how to use each monitor. SolarWinds ipMonitor includes a Downtime Simulator, which allows you to test drive monitors before you implement them. The ipMonitor Downtime Simulator can show what a service failure would look like and deploy test alerts based on your custom configuration. Navigating a synthetic failure can help ensure you’ll know what to do when a service experiences performance issues.
Use Windows application and service monitors to track essential services
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- Use intuitive configuration with agentless discovery for a wide range of different monitor types.
- Get real-time alerts delivered directly to your inbox to quickly address downtime.
- View monitor widgets from a central dashboard to dive into status details for each of your Windows services.