Performance and Threshold Counters for Exchange Server 2010 - Transport Load Based

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Here the most important performance counters and their thresholds is critical to establishing a performance baseline and monitoring plan to proactively monitor your Exchange 2010 environment and troubleshoot and resolve issues when they arise

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Load Determining Counters

\MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\Messages Submitted Per Second

Shows the number of messages that have been queued in the Submission queue per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

\MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\Messages Completed Delivery Per Second

Shows the number of messages that are delivered per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

\MSExchange Store Driver(_total)\Inbound: LocalDeliveryCallsPerSecond

Shows the number of local delivery attempts per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

\MSExchange Store Driver(_total)\Outbound: Submitted Mail Items Per Second

Shows the number of mail items per second being submitted.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

\MSExchangeTransport SmtpReceive(_total)\Average bytes/message

Shows the average number of message bytes per inbound message received.

Determines sizes of messages being received for an SMTP receive connector.

\MSExchangeTransport SmtpReceive(_total)\Messages Received/sec

Shows the number of messages received by the SMTP server each second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

\MSExchangeTransport SmtpSend(_total)\Messages Sent/sec

Shows the number of messages sent by the SMTP send connector each second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

\MSExchange Store Driver(_total)\ Inbound: MessageDeliveryAttemptsPerSecond

Shows the number of attempts for delivering transport mail items per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

MSExchange Store Driver(_total)\Inbound: Recipients Delivered Per Second

Shows the number of inbound recipients delivered per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\Messages Queued for Delivery Per Second

Shows the number of messages that have been queued for delivery per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

MSExchangeTransport Queues(_total)\Messages Completed Delivery Per Second

Shows the number of messages that are delivered per second.

Determines current load. Compare values to historical baselines.

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