Enabling health monitoring

Kentico EMS required

Features described on this page require the Kentico EMS license.

Once you have Kentico performance counters registered in Windows, you need to enable Health monitoring in the Kentico settings:

In the Settings application, select the System -> Health monitoring category, and check the Enable health monitoring setting.

You can also adjust additional settings related to performance counters:

Setting	Description
Enable health monitoring	Indicates if monitored values are written to both General and Site performance counters related to this instance of Kentico. If disabled, no values are written to any of these performance counters.
Application monitoring interval	Time interval (in seconds). In this periodic interval, the application reads monitored values and writes them to performance counters.
Use external service	Indicates if the external Windows service is used to read and write monitored values to the Scheduled tasks in queue, E-mails in queue and Error e-mails in queue performance counters. These counters require database access to get their values, so using the external service may optimize your application’s performance.
Service monitoring interval	Time interval (in seconds). In this periodic interval, the external Windows service reads monitored values and writes them to performance counters. If you are using the Health Monitoring Windows service and change this value, it is necessary to restart the Windows service in order for the new value to be used.
Enable site counters	Indicates if values are written to site specific performance counters. If disabled, values are written to general counters only.

Health monitoring settings