ASP.NET health monitoring allows system administrators to monitor the status of deployed Web applications. It supports the following general scenarios:

Monitoring the performance of an application to ensure that it is healthy.
Rapidly diagnosing failing applications or systems.
Appraising significant events during the lifecycle of a given application.

The health monitoring system includes the event types responsible for packaging application health status information, the provider types responsible for processing this information, and the supporting types that help during the management of health events.

Note
Medium trust or higher is required to raise a health-monitoring event.

The topics in this section will help you understand how to program, configure, and use the health monitoring system.

In This Section

ASP.NET Health Monitoring Overview

Configuring ASP.NET Health Monitoring

Buffering ASP.NET Health Monitoring Events

Using WMI to Deliver ASP.NET Health Monitoring Events

Walkthrough: Listening for WMI Events in ASP.NET Health Monitoring

Extending ASP.NET Health Monitoring

Implementing Custom ASP.NET Health Monitoring Events and Providers

Securing ASP.NET Health Monitoring

Reference

System.Web.Management: The namespace containing types for managing and monitoring the health status of Web applications.

System.Management: The namespace containing types for connecting to the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) infrastructure.

System.Management.Instrumentation: The namespace containing types to instrument applications for WMI potential consumers.

HealthMonitoringSection: The type that programmatically gets or sets the healthMonitoring configuration attributes.

Related Sections

healthMonitoring Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema): Describes the health monitoring configuration section.

ASP.NET Trust Levels and Policy Files: Describes trust levels and associated policy files.