Performance monitoring is a subject that is discussed frequently in IT departments. It is discussed before servers and applications are purchased, it is discussed while the servers are in the pre-production phase and it is discussed many times after the servers have gone into production.

If the server crashes then forensic analysis is performed to pinpoint the cause of the crash. Sometimes the cause of the crash can be traced back to the exhaustion of resources. But hopefully, with diligent monitoring of the server performance, those scenarios can be detected early as resource consumption ramps up the curve of utilization over time.

Luckily for administrators of Exchange Server there are many tools to help with the monitoring of Exchange Server.

In Doug Gowan’s blog, he has written a very informative guide to monitoring performance of the Exchange Server and has given an excellent overview of what components to monitor. In his blog, Doug discusses such components of the Exchange Server as: RPC operations, DSAccess, memory usage, disk usage and processor utilization.

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