1. Proactivity in BizTalk?
Tord Glad Nordahl
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Proactivity - All environments are unique

2. Who am I? BizTalk Administrator Expert Training Health Checking
Debugger
Speaker
Active contributor at TechNet
Active blogger
Profile
Profile
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3. Proactivity in BizTalk
What is meant by proactivity
How can you know
Where do you look
And how do you prevent it?
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4. Make and keep it stable Monitoring tools SCOM BizTalk 360
Messagebox Viewer
BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer
Microsoft Baseline Analyzer
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5. Nothing beats your knowledge!
BizTalk
SQL
Performance Counters
PAL
Statistics
Disk space
Throttling
Thresholds
Event log
Known bugs
Infrastructure
SQL Agents
Performance counters
Databases
Event log
Disks
SQL Queries
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6. How long does it take? Backup BizTalk Server
CleanupBTFExpiredEntriesJob_BizTalkMgmtDb
MessageBox_DeadProcesses_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
MessageBox_Message_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
MessageBox_Message_ManageRefCountLog_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
MessageBox_Parts_Cleanup_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
MessageBox_UpdateStats_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
Monitor BizTalk Server
Operations_OperateOnInstances_OnMaster_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
PurgeSubscriptionsJob_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
Rules_Database_Cleanup_BizTalkRuleEngineDb
TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb
DTA Purge and Archive
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7. Performance counters Needs to be monitored over time
Difference between server related and SQL
Provides you with live and old data
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8. Most important databases
BizTalkMsgBoxDb
BizTalkDTADb
BizTalkMgmtDb
SSODB
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9. BizTalkMsgBoxDb Spool TrackingData_x_x Instances Marklog X-RefcountLog
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10. BizTalkDTADb DebugTrace MessageInOutEvents ServiceInstances Marklog
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11. SQL queries and deadlocks
Make sure you avoid deadlocks
Performance monitor
SQL Profiler
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12. Disks If your using it, make it fast Check for I\O issues
Never go below 15% free disk space
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13. BizTalk Performance counters
Tip: To see all counters at least one host must be running!
BizTalk Performance counters
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14. Performance Counter BizTalk: Message Agent Active Instance Count
Database sessions
Database session threshold
Database size
High database session
High database size
High in-process message count
High message delivery rate
High message publishing rate
High Process memory
High System memory
High thread count
In-process message count
In-process message count threshold
Message delivery delay (ms)

15. Performance Counter BizTalk: Message Agent
Message delivery incoming rate
Message delivery outgoing rate
Message delivery throttling state
Message delivery throttling state duration
Message delivery throttling user override
Message publishing delay (ms)
Message publishing incoming rate
Message publishing outgoing rate
Message publishing throttling state
Message publishing throttling state duration
Message publishing throttling user override
Physical memory usage (MB)
Process memory usage (MB)
Service Class ID
Thread count

16. Performance Counter BizTalk: Message Agent Thread count threshold
Total batches omitted
Total message delivered
Total messages published

17. Performance Counters BizTalk: Message Box: General counters
Instances (total number)
MsgBox Dead processes cleanup (purge job)
MsgBox Msg Cleanup (purge job)
MsgBox Parts Cleanup (purge job)
MsgBox Purge Subscriptions job (purge job)
Spool size
Tracked msg body (purge job)
Tracking data size
Tracking spool cleanup
General information from the message box, like active instances, sizes of data waiting to be purged, tracking data waiting to be moved to the tracking database or BAM and etc.

18. Performance Counters BizTalk: Message Box: Host counters
Host queue – Instance state msg refs – length
Host queue – length
Host queue – number of instances
Host queue – suspended messages - lengthr
This counter will give you information of the host counters in the messagebox. For instance queue length, throttling states, throttling duration etc.

19. Performance Counters BizTalk: TDDS Batches being processed
Batches committed
Events being processed
Events committed
Records being processed
Records committed
Total batches
Total events
Total failed batches
Total failed events
Total records
TDDS: Tracking Data Decode Service

20. Performance counters BizTalk:Messaging Active Receive Location
Active Receive Threads
Active Send Messages
Active Send Threads
Documents processed (per second)
Documents received (per second)
Documents resubmitted (per second)
Documents suspended
Documents transmitted/batch
ID Process
Pending Receive Batches
Pending transmitted messages
Request/response timeouts
Throttled receive batches

21. Performance Counters BizTalk:Messaging Latency Inbound Latency (sec)
Outbound Adapter Latency (sec)
Outbound Latency (sec)
Request-Response Latency (sec)

22. Performance counters
BizTalk:<adapterName>_Receive / Send adapter
Bytes Received
Bytes Received per second
Deleted retries
Lock failures
Lock failures per second
Message received
Messages received per second
Time to build batch

23. Throttling Good or bad? Thresholds met Performance stalls!
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24. Thresholds Add more resources and change limits
Remove resources and limit the application
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25. Event log Look for errors Monitor and trigger on errors Keep it clean
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26. Known bugs You should be aware of all known bugs CU updates
WCF-SQL, Oracle Custom thread issue on receive
5649 event ID
etc
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27. Infrastructure Have some idea of your infrastructure:
Virtualization how and where
Locations
Connections and people
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28. Questions? ?
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