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Monitoring Instance Configuration Settings

Configuration Settings

The configuration of a Monitoring instance can be adjusted via ServiceControl Management or by directly modifying the ServiceControl.Monitoring.exe.config file. The settings listed are applicable to the app settings section of the configuration file unless otherwise specified.

Host Settings

Prior to modifying these configuration settings review Setting a Custom Hostname:

Monitoring/EndpointName

The endpoint name to be used by the monitoring instance and the name of the monitoring queue.

Type: string

Default: Particular.Monitoring

Monitoring/HttpHostname

The hostname to bind the embedded HTTP server to, modify to bind to a specific hostname, eg. monitoring.mydomain.com.

Type: string

Default: localhost

Monitoring/HttpPort

The port to bind the embedded HTTP server.

Type: int

Default: 33633

Logging

Monitoring/LogPath

The path for the Monitoring instance logs.

Type: string

Default: The folder that contains the Monitoring instance executable.

Monitoring/LogLevel

Controls the LogLevel of the Monitoring instance logs.

Type: string

Default: Warn

Valid settings are: Trace, Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal, Off.

This setting will default to Warn if an invalid value is assigned.

Transport

Monitoring/TransportType

The transport type to run ServiceControl Monitor with.

Type: string

NServiceBus/Transport

The connection string for the transport. This setting should be placed in connectionStrings section of configuration file.

Type: string

Monitoring/ErrorQueue

The error queue name.

Type: string

Default: error

Monitoring/MaximumConcurrencyLevel

The maximum concurrency that will be used for ingesting metric messages.

Type: int

Default: 32

Monitoring/EndpointUptimeGracePeriod

The time period after which the endpoint is considered stale if it stops sending messages.

Type: timespan

Default: 40 seconds