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BizTalk Throttling & Thresholds

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BizTalk Throttling& Thresholds

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• BizTalk Administrator for Bouvet in Norway

• Active contributer to the community– Blog, www.biztalkadmin.com,

www.biztalkadminsblogging.com – Microsoft TechNet Wiki, forums and galleries

• Speaker

• Trainer

Who am I?

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So, is throttling good or bad?

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• Containers

• Limits

• Bounderies

What is thresholds?

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• Designed to… – manage server resources– manage rate-based flow– manage dehydration behavior

How does thresholds affect BizTalk

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• When you see thresholds being hit due to– Rate of messages– Use of server resources

However 70% of all companies world-wide never change the defualt setting for threshold, but should they?

Who should change the default settings?

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• Grant more resources to an application

• Limit the application to perform less

However these changes only comes into play when you have to change them due to some of the above bullets.

Why would you change them?

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Resource-based throttling

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Rate-based throttling

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Orchestration throttling

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• Throttling is a first-aid kit to the environment– Prevent melt-downs– Prevent memory leaks– Prevent developer to bring problems into production

• But it may also– Help you to manage the use of resources based on

physical resources or rate of data flow

So what is throttling then?

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• You can monitor your throttling states

• Performance Monitor– Built in with BizTalk

• BizTalk Message Agent

• BizTalk360– Built in throttling analyzer

Are we throttling now?

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Publishing

• Messages being sent into the messagebox

Delivery

• Messages being sent out from BizTalk

Two differences!

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• Receive Ports

Publishing happens in

and may also appear in

• Orchestrations

• Send Ports with two-way communication

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• Send ports

Delivery happens in

and may also appear in

• Orchestrations

• Receive ports with two-way communication

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2 – Incoming rate exceeds outgoing rate

Publishing throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Message publishing incoming rate

BizTalk:Message Agent message publishing outgoing rate

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4 – memory exceeds specified threshold

Publishing throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent High process memory

BizTalk:Message Agent process memory usage (MB)

BizTalk:Message Agent process memory usage threshold (MB)

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5- System memory exceeds threshold

Publishing throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Physical memory usage threshold (MB)

BizTalk:Message Agent Physical memory usage (MB)

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6 – Host message size

Publishing throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent database size

BizTalk:MessageBox : General Counters

Spool size

Tracking data size

BizTalk: MessageBox : Host Counters Host queue length

Host queue suspend message length

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8 – Database session exceeds threshold

Publishing throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Database session

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9 – Process count exceeds threshold

Publishing throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Thread count

BizTalk:Message Agent Thread count threshold

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1 – Incoming rate exceeds outgoing rate

Delivery throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Message publishing incoming rate

BizTalk:Message Agent message publishing outgoing rate

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3 – in-process delivery exceeds threshold

Delivery throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent In-process message count

BizTalk:Message Agent In-process message count threshold

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4 – Process memory exceeds threshold

Delivery throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent High process memory

Process memory usage (MB)

Process memory usage threshold (MB)

Active instance count

In-process message count

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5 - System memory exceeds threshold

Delivery throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Physical memory usage

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9 -Process thread count exceeds threshold

Delivery throttling states

Counter Sub counter

BizTalk:Message Agent Thread count

Thread count threshold

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• Slow running application vs. normal application

Demo

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I ask again, is throttling good or bad?

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BizTalk Tracking

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• When is tracking needed

• What can it be used for?

• What are default settings

• Should you disable it in production

Tracking, what?

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• Information about data going through the environment

• Information gathered from artifacts in BizTalk

Artefact tracking

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• Setting to turn tracking on or off for the entire environment

• Can be changed by right-clicking the group

Global Tracking

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Orchestration tracking

Track Events - Orchestration start and end

Select this check box to track the orchestration instance before and after processing of the entire business process. Orchestration tracking enables you to see the instances in the tracking query result views.

Track Events - Message send and receive

Select this check box to track message send and receive events. This check box is available only if you select the Orchestration start and end check box.

Track Events - Shape start and end

Select this check box when you need to debug orchestration instances in the Orchestration Debugger. When this check box is selected, the event list in the Orchestration Debugger is populated. This check box is available only if you select the Orchestration start and end check box.

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Orchestration tracking

Track Message Bodies - Before orchestration processing

Select this check box to save and track the actual message content prior to processing by the orchestration instance. This check box is available only if you select the Message send and receive check box.

Track Message Bodies - After orchestration processing

Select this check box to save and track the actual message content after processing by the orchestration instance. This check box is available only if you select the Message send and receive check box.

Track Message Properties - Incoming messages

Select this check box to track the promoted properties of an inbound message.

Track Message Properties - Outgoing messages

Select this check box to track the promoted properties of an outbound message.

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Receive Port tracking

Track Message Bodies - Request message before port processing

Select this check box to save and track message content before the message is received.

Track Message Bodies - Request message after port processing

Select this check box to save and track message content after the message is received.

Track Message Properties - Request message before port processing

Select this check box to track the promoted properties of an inbound message.

Track Message Properties - Request message after port processing

Select this check box if you want to track the promoted properties of an outbound message.

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Send Port tracking

Track Message Bodies - Request message before port processing

Select this check box to enable you to save and track message content before the message is received.

Track Message Bodies - Request message after port processing

Select this check box to enable you to save and track message content after the message is received.

Track Message Properties - Request message before port processing

Select this check box to track the promoted properties of an inbound message.

Track Message Properties - Request message after port processing

Select this check box if you want to track the promoted properties of an outbound message.

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BRE tracking

Fast activitySelect this check box to track the instance data on which the policy operates.

Condition evaluationSelect this check box to track the true/false results of conditions in the selected policy.

Rule firingsSelect this check box to track the actions started as a result of the policy.

Agenda updates

Select this check box to track updates to the agenda. The agenda contains a list of actions that are "true" and need to fire.

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Schema tracking

• Select the schema you want to track

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Pipeline trackingPort start and end events

Select this check box to track only when an instance starts and ends. Details include item name, assembly, and other metadata.

Message send and receive events

Select this check box to track message send and receive events. This check box is available only if Port start and end events is selected.

Messages before pipeline processing

Select this check box to save and track the message bodies received by the pipeline, which holds metadata such as URLs and promoted properties. If this is a receive pipeline, the message body is the raw message as submitted to the pipeline by the transport component. Depending on the application, the message might be encrypted, signed, or encoded. When using a BizTalk map, if this is a receive pipeline, tracking takes place after the inbound map is processed.This check box is available only if Message send and receive events is selected.

Messages after pipeline processing

Select this check box to save and track the message bodies sent by the pipeline, which holds metadata such as URLs and promoted properties. If this is a receive pipeline, the message body is the processed message to be submitted to the MessageBox database, which may be XML depending on your application. When using a BizTalk map, if this is a send pipeline, tracking takes place before the outbound map is processed.This check box is available only if Message send and receive events is selected.

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Two ways to move tracking data

• One for moving the content of the messages

• One for the rest of the tracking data

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Dedicated tracking host

• Moves all events and execute cleanup within the tracking database

• One per MessageBox + one for redundancy

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SQL Agent job

• TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb moves all content to the tracking database

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Tables in the MessageBox

• TrackingData_0_x contains data waiting to be transferred to BAM

• TrackingData_1_x contains data waiting to be transferred to the DTA database

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Gathering statistics

• How long did my orchestration take?

• How long did it take from receiving till it was sent

• How many messages do I transfer

• Specific information regarding tracking based on artifacts.

• When should you have maintenance hours

• How to keep statistics

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How does it evolve

• Information gathered over time

• Simplify gathering by using PowerShell, databases or other software programs like Excel and PowerPivot

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In and Out Events

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Service Instances

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Combination

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• Powershell script to delete old files

• Find information for orphaned messages

• Statistics from in and out events in BizTalk

• Statistics from in out events grouped by portname and date

• Large files in tracking database

• Get statistics from Instances in BizTalk

• Instances in Messagebox being processed by a host instance

• Stop all applications

• BizTalk Powershell to clean messagebox and tracking database

• Count Send Ports by adapters in BizTalk

• Count Receive Location based on adapter usage

• Load more information from your BizTalk Tracking database

• Clean orphaned messages in BizTalk

• Find recieve locations by address

• Find send ports by port address

Scripts and queries

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