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IIS Windows

Overview​

IIS monitoring uses WMI query to fetch metrics aggregated across all of the sites, or on a per-site basis. IIS plugin collects metrics for active connections, bytes sent and received, request count by HTTP method, access-log and more.

Pre-requisites​

  • Web IIS Server 8.0 or above
  • Performance counters should be enabled in IIS manager

Configuration​

Add the plugin configuration in config.yaml file under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Sfagent\" directory as follows to enable this plugin

sfAgent section provides steps to install and automatically generate plugin configurations. User can also manually add the configuration shown below to config.yaml under "C:/Program Files (x86)/Sfagent/" directory 

key: <profile key> 
generate_name: true 
tags: 
  Name: <unique instance name or will be generated from IP> 
  appName: <add application name> 
  projectName: <add project name> 
metrics: 
  plugins: 
    - name: iis 
      enabled: true 
      interval: 300
logging: 
  plugins: 
    - name: iis-access 
      enabled: true 
      config: 
        log_path: /log/filepath 
        ua_parser: false
        url_normalizer: false

IIS Access Log Options:​
  1. User-Agent Analysis: To get the host machine details like browser, Operating system and device by analysis the user-agent. To enable, set the option "ua_parser" to true in the above configuration. If enabled, by default it runs on port 8586.
  2. URL Normalizer (not supported in container deployment): Normalize incoming URL paths. To enable, set the option "url_normalizer" to true in the above configuration. If enabled, by default it runs on port 8587.

Viewing data and dashboards​

Dashboard for this data can be instantiated by Importing dashboard template IIS to the application dashboard.