healthMonitoring Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

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04/30/2007

Configures an application for health monitoring.

This element is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<healthMonitoring 
   Enabled="true|false"
   heartbeatInterval="time interval">
   <bufferModes>...</bufferModes>
   <providers>...</providers>
   <eventMappings>...</eventMappings>
   <profiles>...</profiles>
   <rules>...</rules>
</healthMonitoring>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements for this section.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
enabled	Required Boolean attribute. Specifies whether health monitoring is enabled. If true, health monitoring is enabled.
heartbeatInterval	Required TimeSpan attribute. Specifies the interval, in seconds, for how often the WebHeartbeatEvent event is raised. The default value is "00:00:00", which indicates that no WebHeartbeatEvent event is raised.

enabled

Required Boolean attribute.

Specifies whether health monitoring is enabled. If true, health monitoring is enabled.

heartbeatInterval

Required TimeSpan attribute.

Specifies the interval, in seconds, for how often the WebHeartbeatEvent event is raised.

The default value is "00:00:00", which indicates that no WebHeartbeatEvent event is raised.

Child Elements

Element	Description
bufferModes	Optional element. Defines the buffering capabilities for a provider.
eventMappings	Optional element. Maps friendly event names to the related event types.
profiles	Optional element. Defines a collection of parameter sets to use when configuring events.
providers	Optional element. Defines the health monitoring providers that process events.
rules	Optional element. Maps events to providers.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the required root element in every configuration file that is used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration section.

Remarks

This configuration section applies at the machine or application level.

Default Configuration

The following default healthMonitoring element is configured in the root Web.config file in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<healthMonitoring>
   <bufferModes>
       <add name="Critical Notification" maxBufferSize="100" maxFlushSize="20" 
            urgentFlushThreshold="1" regularFlushInterval="Infinite" urgentFlushInterval="00:01:00" 
            maxBufferThreads="1" />
       <add name="Notification" maxBufferSize="300" maxFlushSize="20" urgentFlushThreshold="1" 
            regularFlushInterval="Infinite" urgentFlushInterval="00:01:00" 
            maxBufferThreads="1" />
       <add name="Analysis" maxBufferSize="1000" maxFlushSize="100" urgentFlushThreshold="100" 
            regularFlushInterval="00:05:00" urgentFlushInterval="00:01:00" 
            maxBufferThreads="1" />
       <add name="Logging" maxBufferSize="1000" maxFlushSize="200" urgentFlushThreshold="800" 
            regularFlushInterval="00:30:00" urgentFlushInterval="00:05:00" 
            maxBufferThreads="1" />
   </bufferModes>

   <providers>
       <add name="EventLogProvider"
            type="System.Web.Management.EventLogWebEventProvider,
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
       <add ConnectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" maxEventDetailsLength="1073741823" 
            buffer="false" bufferMode="Notification" name="SqlWebEventProvider"
            type="System.Web.Management.SqlWebEventProvider,
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
       <add name="WmiWebEventProvider"
            type="System.Web.Management.WmiWebEventProvider,
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
   </providers>

   <profiles>
       <add name="Default" minInstances="1" maxLimit="Infinite" minInterval="00:01:00" 
            custom="" />
       <add name="Critical" minInstances="1" maxLimit="Infinite" minInterval="00:00:00" 
            custom="" />
   </profiles>

   <rules>
       <add name="All Errors Default" eventName="All Errors" provider="EventLogProvider" 
            profile="Default" minInstances="1" maxLimit="Infinite" minInterval="00:01:00" 
            custom="" />
       <add name="Failure Audits Default" eventName="Failure Audits"
            provider="EventLogProvider" profile="Default" minInstances="1" maxLimit="Infinite" 
            minInterval="00:01:00" custom="" />
   </rules>

   <eventMappings>
       <add name="All Events" 
            type="System.Web.Management.WebBaseEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,
            PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Heartbeats" 
            type="System.Web.Management.WebHeartbeatEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,
            PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Application Lifetime Events" 
            type="System.Web.Management.WebApplicationLifetimeEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
            PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Request Processing Events" 
            type="System.Web.Management.WebRequestEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
            PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="All Errors"
             type="System.Web.Management.WebBaseErrorEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
             PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Infrastructure Errors" 
             type="System.Web.Management.WebErrorEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Request Processing Errors" 
             type="System.Web.Management.WebRequestErrorEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
             PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="All Audits"               type="System.Web.Management.WebAuditEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
               PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Failure Audits" 
             type="System.Web.Management.WebFailureAuditEvent, System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" 
endEventCode="2147483647" />
       <add name="Success Audits" 
             type="System.Web.Management.WebSuccessAuditEvent, 
System.Web,Version=2.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, 
             PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" startEventCode="0" endEventCode="2147483647" />
    </eventMappings>
</healthMonitoring>

Example

The following code example shows how to configure an application to monitor health status.

<healthMonitoring Enabled="true" heartbeatInterval="00:00:00">
  <!-- Configure the providers -->
  <providers>
    <add name="SampleEventProvider" type="Samples.AspNet.SampleEventProvider,SampleEventProvider,
Version=0.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=92029af6cf75bd7c,ProcessorArchitecture=Neutral"/>
  </providers>

  <!--  Configure the events -->
  <eventMappings>
    <add  name="SampleWebRequests" type="Samples.AspNet.SampleWebRequestEvent,SampleWebRequestEvent,
Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f0c63b9a560d5e5a"/>
  </eventMappings>

  <!-- Define the rules -->
  <rules>
    <add name="Sample Web Requests"
      eventName="SampleWebRequests"
      provider="SampleEventProvider"
      profile="Default"
      minInterval="00:01:00" />

    <add name="Standard Web Requests"
      eventName="All Events"
      provider="SampleEventProvider"
      profile="Default"
      minInterval="00:01:00" />
  </rules>

</healthMonitoring>

Element Information

Configuration section handler	System.Web.Configuration.HealthMonitoringSection
Configuration member	System.Web.Configuration.SystemWebSectionGroup.HealthMonitoring
Configurable locations	Machine.config Root-level Web.config Application-level Web.config
Requirements	Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0, 5.1, or 6.0 The .NET Framework version 2.0 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

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Attributes and Elements

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