SharePoint Server Performance Monitoring Tool

With its built-in Microsoft SharePoint monitoring tools, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) can provide in-depth insight into performance. You can customize user-friendly dashboards to meet specific SharePoint monitoring needs, with key features like real-time metrics dashboards, alerting, and reporting, all in one place.

SAM SharePoint monitoring tools include out-of-the-box components for you to monitor the following and more:

• Queued SharePoint requests
• Request wait time
• Cache API
• Worker process

Track SharePoint service metrics related to search, text indexing, trace output, sending notifications, and performing scheduled tasks. With SAM, you can combine historical and real-time SharePoint performance metrics for a comprehensive SharePoint health check.

Microsoft SharePoint monitoring tools in SAM make it easier to monitor server objects without individual logins to each server. It also allows for easy SharePoint monitoring of large farms from a single SharePoint monitoring dashboard, and it operates quickly due to its integration with Microsoft PowerShell. In addition, Server & Application Monitor offers native integration with SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor for synthetic transaction monitoring, showing you if a specific web transaction or a step is causing webpages and page elements to load slowly.

With the right SharePoint monitoring software, you can get a deep understanding of your server's behavior. Using intuitive SharePoint monitoring tools like SolarWinds SAM can help you efficiently pinpoint SharePoint performance issues, so you can get a comprehensive overview of health with remediation solutions in no time.

SharePoint is a highly customizable, cloud-based content management platform that facilitates collaboration among teams from anywhere in the world. Organizations can use SharePoint on-premises or with an Office 365 Enterprise subscription to create websites and store, organize, share, and access information. SharePoint servers underlie SharePoint functionality and can be configured to provide specific resources or design for a company’s SharePoint deployment.

SharePoint servers are grouped together in what are known as SharePoint farms, which support SharePoint services and sites. You can configure each server in your farm to perform one or more roles, including web front end (WFE), application server, and database server. WFEs handle webpage requests from users—and the more users you have, the more WFE servers you will need to handle the workload. The application server provides key infrastructure for applications hosted in a SharePoint farm, while the database server implements SQL to handle data. Within a single farm, you can have a strong foundation of services and as many databases, web applications, and site collections as needed for your organization.

SharePoint performance monitoring tools have become increasingly important for ensuring this application and its underlying servers run well and support business productivity.

With SharePoint server monitoring, you can gain deeper insight into key SharePoint performance metrics like:

• CPU and memory usage of SharePoint servers
• Number of requests and their wait time, including current, queued, and rejected
• Page request metrics
• Number of threads currently executing in SharePoint code

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor SharePoint monitoring software can help you identify SharePoint performance metrics and causes of errors, which can help you better strategize efficient remediation actions to minimize damage and latency. Using a SharePoint performance monitoring tool is key to providing optimal experiences for end users.

SharePoint auditing allows admins to track and report on performance metrics.

Some SharePoint performance problems, like slowed response time and loading issues, can impede the success of running a business, so it's important to monitor your SharePoint environment proactively rather than only when issues have already come to light. In addition, it's important to have and leverage SharePoint server performance logs to better understand the health of SharePoint farms. SharePoint performance auditing provides real-time and historical data that can enable you to place performance metrics against a set of server baselines to spot a potential issue before it happens.

Other advantages of regular SharePoint performance auditing include:

• Preventing SQL Server outages by making sure your disks don't run out of free space
• Reducing page load times by fixing problematic SharePoint services on the server
• Detecting database latency problems
• Improving response time of your WFE and APP servers
• Being aware of resource overutilization
• Checking buffer cache hit ratio or other SQL buffer-related performance counters to ensure the SharePoint servers have sufficient physical memory storage

SharePoint server infrastructure monitoring allows for fuller visibility across your SharePoint servers and generates user-friendly reports, giving you comprehensive control of your SharePoint infrastructure.

With a SharePoint inventory tool, admins can discover and track SharePoint assets and obtain an updated view of the overall SharePoint environment that helps enable more informed IT management decisions.

Especially in large IT environments where there may be multiple SharePoint farms present, having an inventory makes it possible to easily view key asset data. This can include visibility into where servers and their components reside, how they’re used, and when they were added to the inventory.

A SharePoint inventory tool can also help provide practical business and IT information. You can have an overview of asset costs, track warranty information, and ensure you’re notified about upgrade requirements.

Understanding SharePoint infrastructure inventory can help you ensure you have sufficient resources dedicated to SharePoint functionality, are budgeting effectively, and have the information you need to plan for growth.