Exchange Monitoring Tool for Server Performance
Exchange Monitoring to Help You Plan for Mailbox Database Capacity
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to help you determine and monitor overall mailbox capacity constraints with easy-to-use dashboards for viewing mailbox database size, including volume usage, transaction log size, and file size.
With SAM, you can drill into individual mailbox details to better determine if a large mailbox should be moved to another database to load balance capacity. SolarWinds SAM is also built to automatically collect stats about capacity issues, so you can more easily troubleshoot issues with real-time and historical Exchange server performance data.
Proactively Identify Storage Performance Issues in Your Exchange Server
When storage volumes run out of available disk space, you may run into issues where Exchange is unable to store additional emails. High disk latency can also lead to performance issues, which is why planning disk storage using the Exchange server monitoring insights from SolarWinds SAM can be critical.
Stay Ahead of Mail Storms Through Active Exchange Server Monitoring
Mail storms can come from anywhere—from applications, to viruses, to large email aliases. By using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to track aspects of Exchange like the Hub Transport Server, Mailbox Server, Edge Transport server, and the CAS, you can receive alerts about issues in advance and before Exchange stops working.
SAM is designed to monitor and provide the performance views you need to quickly resolve issues and head off a mail storm before end-users are impacted.
Quickly Troubleshoot User Mailbox Issues With the Help Of Detailed Interfaces
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is built to allow you to troubleshoot user mailbox issue within seconds. Drilling into the user’s details, you can view the number and size of mailbox attachments, mailbox synced devices, and sent/received mail trends, which can indicate a spam issue with the user’s account.
With this information, you can report on user mailbox details to more easily clean up the mailbox database and help improve overall performance.
Comprehensively Investigate Exchange Server Issues
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is designed to provide a comprehensive view of your entire IT infrastructure, with the added ability of being able to drill into any component to identify what may be affecting Exchange health.
SolarWinds SAM is built to monitor Exchange Server for important metrics potentially impacting performance like mailbox database size, mount status, replication status, information store, and more. When SAM detects an issue, the tool can send an alert to allow you to quickly begin troubleshooting and resolving the issue in your physical and virtual Exchange environment.
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What is Exchange monitoring?
Exchange monitoring is the process of monitoring Microsoft Exchange Server performance by tracking key metrics to help ensure servers are performing as expected, supporting quick issue resolution, and helping identify opportunities to improve performance.
Some of the key elements involved in Exchange monitoring include memory, CPU, utilization of Exchange servers, disk space, and monitoring the status of Windows Services related to your Microsoft Exchange Server. Monitoring Exchange components can also help inform important storage performance decisions, such as deploying high-performance disks and spindles, selecting the right RAID configuration, and aligning your disks to help improve performance.
Why is Exchange monitoring important?
Exchange Server monitoring is integral to keeping your organization and business communications running smoothly. Whether it’s scheduling meetings, getting notifications about vulnerability issues within the network, or closing deals, using Exchange monitoring to ensure the health, availability, and performance of an Exchange Server can be important for supporting the bottom line of a business.
What do Exchange monitoring tools do?
Exchange monitoring tools are designed to simplify the process of tracking server performance by automating the collection of metrics and compiling insights into actionable dashboards to help ensure your servers are performing without issues.
An Exchange Server monitoring tool can help you more effectively track performance and security issues by:
- Proactively alerting when key metrics like free space availability, database usage, and average mailbox size cross predetermined thresholds
- Showing both historical and current data to forecast storage metrics and plan for mailbox database capability
- Providing suggestions for optimal storage performance options
- Helping you identify and troubleshoot which user mailboxes have problems without needing to run scripts to help you save time
- Supporting the ability to easily drill down into a specific issue, so you can fix it as quickly as possible
- Having a user-friendly interface, which allows you to find the information you need quickly and easily
- Incorporating an advanced reporting tool to make Microsoft Exchange reporting both easy to read and visually appealing
- Accessing to details on Exchange user permissions, which can help internal auditors quickly verify compliance and other regulations.
- Alerting if access accounts are organized insecurely and using automated deprovisioning in situation of insider threats
How does Exchange monitoring work in Server & Application Monitor?
With SAM as your Exchange Server monitoring software, you can get deep monitoring insights of your Exchange infrastructure using its integrated AppInsight™ for Exchange, which is built to exclusively monitor the Exchange Mailbox role to provide a single view of current and historic performance metrics such as storage, mail queues, mailbox databases, events, and critical processes and services.
The Exchange monitoring tool in SAM is designed to proactively alert on key Exchange server performance metrics including transaction log size, average mailbox size, and database usage and free space. It can also constantly monitor the performance of the mailbox server, hub transport server and edge transport server. The Exchange monitoring tool then uses statistical baseline thresholds to alert on abnormal hub transport messages queued.
In addition to providing advanced and easy-to-use reporting tools and interfaces as part of its Exchange Server monitor features, SAM can let you see information about synced mobile devices and other devices. SolarWinds SAM can also show you your organization’s top mailbox offenders with the ability to drill down into mail usage patterns, so you can get a better sense of how your Exchange Server is being used by your business.
Related Features and Tools
Other SolarWinds tools to help improve your Microsoft Exchange environment:
- Access Rights Manager (Exchange access auditing and management)
Related Features:
- What is Exchange monitoring?
- Why is Exchange monitoring important?
- What do Exchange monitoring tools do?
- How does Exchange monitoring work in Server & Application Monitor?
- Related Features and Tools
What is Exchange monitoring?
Exchange monitoring is the process of monitoring Microsoft Exchange Server performance by tracking key metrics to help ensure servers are performing as expected, supporting quick issue resolution, and helping identify opportunities to improve performance.
Some of the key elements involved in Exchange monitoring include memory, CPU, utilization of Exchange servers, disk space, and monitoring the status of Windows Services related to your Microsoft Exchange Server. Monitoring Exchange components can also help inform important storage performance decisions, such as deploying high-performance disks and spindles, selecting the right RAID configuration, and aligning your disks to help improve performance.
Specialized Exchange monitoring keeps your Exchange Server healthy
Server & Application Monitor
- Stay on top of Exchange Server monitoring metrics with proactive alerts.
- Forecast storage metrics using past and current data, so your email servers stay operational.
- Easily drill down into Exchange Server issues with the help of advanced reporting tools.
