Section 2 · Choose and set up an integration

Monitoring Microsoft IIS

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Microsoft IIS integration

The IIS integration provides web server monitoring for Microsoft IIS, including application pool health. Worker process failures are a key warning sign, since a failing pool takes its apps down with it.

What it’s forMonitoring web traffic, requests, connections, and application pools
Under the hoodUses Windows performance counters (the windows_exporter IIS collector)

Metrics collected

The integration collects web traffic and application pool metrics:

  • Requests: Rate, worker requests
  • Connections: Current, total
  • App pools: Worker process count, failures, threads
  • Bytes: Sent, received, total

What to know

This integration offers:

  • Prebuilt dashboards: IIS overview, applications, logs
  • Prebuilt alerts: 5xx errors, worker process failures, thread pool utilization
  • Pairs well with the Windows integration

Set it up

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Learning path

Monitor IIS web servers

Set up the IIS integration to monitor request rates, error rates, and worker process health for your IIS web servers.

18 min
Beginner
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