Identifying Monitoring Areas

What you monitor, and to what extent, depends on your specific deployment. In general, however, include the following elements in your monitoring strategy:

• Server activity such as resource usage, server status, and connection information

• Database activity such as cache, transactions, locks, and log information

• Disk status including available disk space and threshold information

• Replication activity including status (whether or not replication is running), and the state of synchronization

• Indexing efficiency including unindexed searches, search filters, and frequently used indexes

• Security status including failed bind attempts, open connections, and effective rights