Performance

How to Monitor SQL Server with SQL Server Profiler on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor SQL Server with SQL Server Profiler on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to SQL Server Monitoring with SQL Server Profiler SQL Server Profiler is a graphical interface for creating and managing SQL Server traces — real-time captures of SQL Server events including T-SQL queries executed, stored procedure calls, login events, error conditions, lock acquisitions, and query execution plans. Profiler is installed as part of SQL Server […]

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How to Set Up SolarWinds Monitoring Agent on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SolarWinds Monitoring Agent on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to SolarWinds Monitoring Agent on Windows Server 2019 SolarWinds is a leading provider of IT infrastructure monitoring software. SolarWinds N-central and SolarWinds Orion are the two primary platforms used in enterprise and managed service provider environments. N-central uses a lightweight agent installed on Windows Server 2019 endpoints to collect performance metrics, health checks, patch […]

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How to Configure IIS Logging and Analysis on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure IIS Logging and Analysis on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to IIS Logging and Analysis on Windows Server 2019 Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server 2019 generates detailed access logs for every HTTP and HTTPS request received by a web server. These logs are invaluable for performance analysis, troubleshooting 4xx and 5xx errors, detecting security threats (such as directory traversal or SQL injection […]

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How to Use Azure Monitor with Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Azure Monitor with Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Azure Monitor for Windows Server 2019 Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s comprehensive monitoring service that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from Azure resources, on-premises servers, and hybrid environments. For Windows Server 2019 machines — whether on-premises, in Azure, or in other clouds — Azure Monitor can collect performance metrics, Windows Event Logs, […]

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How to Set Up System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to System Center Operations Manager System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring platform designed for large-scale Windows environments. It uses management packs — extensible plug-ins — to provide out-of-the-box monitoring intelligence for Windows Server operating systems, SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory, Hyper-V, and hundreds of third-party applications. SCOM uses agents deployed to […]

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How to Configure Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Windows Performance Monitor on Windows Server 2019 Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) is a built-in Windows Server 2019 tool that provides real-time and historical monitoring of hundreds of system performance counters, including CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific metrics. Perfmon supports Data Collector Sets for capturing performance data over time, which is invaluable for […]

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How to Install Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2019 Zabbix is a mature, open-source enterprise monitoring platform that supports agentless and agent-based monitoring for servers, network devices, applications, and cloud services. Installing the Zabbix Agent on Windows Server 2019 enables the Zabbix Server to collect system performance metrics, monitor services, execute remote commands, and trigger alerts […]

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How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on Windows Server 2019 Prometheus is an open-source time-series monitoring system originally developed at SoundCloud, now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. It collects metrics by scraping HTTP endpoints exposed by exporters on monitored systems. Grafana is a visualization and dashboarding platform that queries Prometheus (and many other […]

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How to Set Up Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2019 Data Deduplication (Dedup) is a Windows Server 2019 feature that reduces storage consumption by identifying and eliminating duplicate data blocks across files on a volume. Instead of storing multiple copies of identical data, Dedup replaces duplicates with references to a single shared copy stored in a special […]

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How to Configure Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Volume Shadow Copy Service on Windows Server 2019 The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a core Windows infrastructure component that enables the creation of consistent point-in-time snapshots of volumes, even while applications are actively writing to disk. VSS coordinates with VSS requestors (backup applications), VSS providers (storage drivers or hardware), and VSS […]

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