Perficient has many great partners that support our development and deployment of the best of breed solutions we provide for our clients. This post is the second in a series that will highlight some of the products available from our partners. Today, I’ll be presenting Metalogix and their Diagnostic Manager for SharePoint. 
Metalogix Diagnostic Manager ensures SharePoint performance and availability at all times. It monitors SharePoint content and servers from a single console, quickly identifying , diagnosing, and resolving problems before users even notice. It also provides critical planning information by storing size, count, and performance data of both servers and stored objects. Diagnostic Manager also monitors SharePoint in real-time, enabling administrators to quickly pinpoint performance and availability issues with servers, resources, HTML controls, web parts, and web controls.
Key Features
- Preventative Care, Not Just Emergency Care
Diagnostic Manager provides constant insight to your server and content performance. It continuously monitors, diagnoses, discovers, analyzes and resolves SharePoint performance and availability issues.
- Diagnose Without Delay
Access historical data, alerts, performance information, and more, even when SharePoint is down. Metalogix Diagnostic Manager eliminates time lost waiting for more information and let’s administrators start work as soon as a problem occurs. It can also send alerts via email to keep administrators aware of problems, even offsite.
- Take control of your SharePoint health
Continuously monitor, diagnose, discover, analyze and fix SharePoint performance and availability issues efficiently. Quickly understand why your SharePoint servers are not performing well or why pages are taking long to load.
- Out-Of-The-Box Monitoring
Instant and automatic monitoring of all SharePoint farm servers without the need to develop any kind of script. Built-in defaults can start monitoring your SharePoint servers immediately.
Highlights and Benefits
- Continuous SharePoint monitoring: 24×7 SharePoint farm monitoring. Performance data is captured for key SharePoint pages and servers and stored in a database for historical analysis.
- One console. Many farms: Multiple SharePoint farms monitored from a single console with complete server and configuration details such as CPU, disk activity, IIS, memory and page utilization.
- SQL Server monitoring: Detailed configuration options, database fragmentation and capacity planning data
- Full web page coverage: Granular, server-side performance data analysis for all SharePoint publishing and web part pages such as server controls, web parts, images, and scripts
- Unlimited pages: No restriction on the number of pages monitored.
- Top server and top pages reporting: Metalogix Diagnostic Manager enables you to quickly identify the worst performing pages (Top Pages) or servers (Top Servers)
- Farm Content Summary: Farm content reporting includes counts, sizes, and utilization of objects.
- Capacity planning data: Rich , graphical analyses of patterns and trends.
- Easy-to-use Interface: Powerful and easy to use console enables complex analyses to be displayed and understood in seconds, without the need to be a SharePoint expert.
- Dashboard views: Metalogix Intuitive dashboard UI provides a quick view of SharePoint server health, along with diagnostic and resolution information.
Comprehensive Reporting
Metalogix Diagnostic Manager provides reporting at the summary, server and page levels to provide rapid status on the SharePoint environment. Summary and detail performance metrics provide a comprehensive view at the server, content, and administrative levels.
Complete SQL Server Monitoring
Diagnostic Manager provides full SQL Server insight, including details on database configuration, fragmentation, and allocation. It also provides critical capacity planning using data and log file growth trends.
Clean Data For True Testing
Clear server-side performance metrics for accurate test data and diagnosis, without interference from browser, geo, OS, or connection.
Collects Component-level results
Powerful collection of page control elements that clearly differentiates page loading, execution, or rendering of individual page elements. Identify the worst performing HTML controls, web parts and web controls by load time, size and type.
Get a view into the data stored into SharePoint
Diagnostic Manager’s farm content captures objects size, count and growth information, enabling capacity planning and effective forecasting of trouble-spots.
Threshold Customization
Customized server level thresholds such as CPU, Memory, Disk, IIS, page HTML, web parts and web control alerting to meet unique performance requirements.
Granular Alert Controls
Set up rules to control the response to alerts. Deploy alert emails only to those with responsibility for particular farms, servers or performance metrics or apply business notification criteria.
SNMP Support
Diagnostic Manager’s ability to generate SNMP traps in response to alerts allows integration with Enterprise monitoring solutions such as Microsoft SCOM. For more information, contact Metalogix directly or contact us here at Perficient and we can help you with your SharePoint and Metalogix deployments.
