TFS2012: Monitoring Management Pack

The Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack for monitoring TFS with System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or 2012 is now available. You can download it here.

The Team Foundation Server 2012 Monitoring Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012. It monitors TFS components such as application tier server instances, team project collections, build servers, and proxy servers.

Feature Summary
The monitoring provided by this management pack includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of Team Foundation Server components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.

• Auto discovery of TFS components
• Implements containment hierarchy, reflecting logical architecture of the Product
• Implements a proper health model using Monitors
• Contains tasks, diagnostic and recovery for certain failures
• Provides events that indicate service outages
• Provides alerts that show configuration issues and connected data source changes
• Verification that all dependent services are running

Here’s a screenshot of the Health Explorer view, where you can see some of the monitors for some of the TFS events in the event log.

And here’s an example of the Availability Report available through SCOM for the application tier.

This monitoring pack has a dependency on and is meant to be used in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. For monitoring TFS2010, see the Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack.