Monitoring BizTalk Processes from BizTalk360: A Deep Dive?

Are you making the most out of your BizTalk360’s Process Monitoring capabilities? Not sure when and how to use this functionality? Then this article provides a piece of information which can be of help!???

Business scope:??

The idea behind the process monitoring is simple: if you are expecting certain amounts of messages to be processed either via receive or to transmit, from and into your BizTalk environment. If that doesn’t happen, then there is a business implication, and someone needs to be notified. That’s exactly the scope of Process Monitoring. Your trading partner sends you some files via FTP every day. If you receive the file, everything works smoothly. What happens if there is a problem with your partner and you haven’t received any messages from them for a couple of days? What if there is a functionality to monitor how things go? Now, let us get started with the solution.??

Solution:??

If you expect to process 5 purchase orders from an FTP location every hour and you haven’t received the expected volume, then BizTalk360 can alert you with a message. Sounds interesting, right? BizTalk360 Process Monitoring feature makes it easy to get the actual count of messages that have been processed through the BizTalk ports. If the files are not received on time, then the support team can check for the cause and take necessary actions.???

Setting Process Monitoring for Receive Location??

It is going to be a simple process.???

1. In BizTalk360, under Monitoring, navigate to Data Monitoring > Manage Schedule > Process Monitoring.??
2. Users can now select the “Add Schedule” button.???
3. Enter the number of messages that you are expecting during a specific time frame.????
4. Select the ports for which you want to set up monitoring.??
5. Select the duration of how often you want to monitor:??

(a) Daily – will set up the data monitor to execute every day.??

(b) Weekly – process data monitor will execute on the selected days of the week.??

(c) Monthly - process data monitor will execute on the selected days of the month.??

6. When during the day – Select the time when the data monitor must execute on a particular day during the business hours.???

Technical Background:??

The Process Monitoring capability is implemented using BizTalk Event Tracking. By default, the only mandatory requirement for Process Monitoring is that customers should not have disabled BizTalk Global Tracking in the environment. There is no custom development, or any custom pipeline component required to take advantage of this capability.??

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