Message Tracking

Message tracking enables close to real-time monitoring of messages that are received and sent to and from your integration solution. The BizMon message tracking system is built upon the BizTalk Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) infrastructure. Both BizMon and BAM uses a "wiretap architecture", which means that no changes to your existing solution are required and everything is solved via configuration in BizMon. Message tracking works as an extra layer on top of your existing integration solution!

By default, message tracking is inactive and all the error monitoring features are fully functional without message tracking enabled. Message tracking is invaluable when monitoring the "pulse" and activity in you integration solution. It makes the power of BAM available to all users and scenarios.

Message Tracking by day

The aggregated status of an application is based on the state of its receive locations, send ports, host instances, orchestrations, and possible suspended messages. BizMon will highlight failed applications and alert the user to attend these. As the status-update is instant, it will allow support-personal to react on the issues seconds after they occurred.

BizMon shows the number of messages received and sent for the past seven days. This will allow the user to instantly be able to measure the number of messages of a specific day to that of previous days.

The message tracking view can also be made available to “business users” and “system owners”.  This will help them to make sure that they have received and sent the messages expected (without having to contact the BizTalk administrators and developers).

Message Tracking by hours

The aggregated status of an application is based on the state of its receive locations, send ports, host instances, orchestrations, and possible suspended messages. BizMon will highlight failed applications and alert the user to attend these. As the status-update is instant, it will allow support-personal to react on the issues seconds after they occurred.

BizMon also allows further drilling down in the tracked data, even showing received and sent messages per hour within a specific day. This feature is very useful to validate that data has been sent or received at a certain time – for example a in a ”batch” integration scenario.

Message Tracking in figures

Graphs are of course good for instant views and makes it easy to compare different days and hours. BizMon however also shows the amount of messages received and sent on the different ports in numbers – just to make sure that even the color blinds amongst us can make sure their messages has been sent and received as expected.