Tuesday, May 13, 2014

BizTalk Health Statistics - Scripts

Sometimes you want to know how many messages have passed through BizTalk. Often this question pops up from a business perspective where they want to know how the use of the environment is evolving, in either positive or negative directions. It’s also useful to set out guidelines on how much data your environment can handle and to create upgrade plans when emergency levels are being reached.

There are four kinds of statistics that we always try to gather. These are: 
  • - Messages passing through per day (In & Out)
  • - Instances (orchestrations & pipelines) executed per day
  • - Usage of host instances
  • - Largest message sizes

The statistics are gathered by executing SQL scripts on the Tracking Database.

Messages per day

SELECT datepart(dd, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]) as dateMsg, datepart(MM, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]) as monthMsg, count(Convert(char(10), [dtInsertionTimeStamp], 108)) as ant
FROM [BizTalkDTADb].[dbo].[dta_MessageInOutEvents] WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE [dtInsertionTimeStamp]
BETWEEN convert(datetime, '2014-02-10 00:00:00', 120) AND convert(datetime, '2014-02-16 23:59:59',  120)
GROUP BY datepart(dd, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]),datepart(MM, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]) ORDER BY [dateMsg]ASC, [monthMsg]

The “BETWEEN” part can be filled in with a timeframe of several days (in case your tracking database keeps all data on these days. A result as the following will be received:

dateMsg
monthMsg
ant
10
2
277262
11
2
381427
12
2
427297
13
2
291388
14
2
285235
15
2
3290
16
2
672

Instances per day

SELECT  datepart(dd, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]) as dateMsg, datepart(MM, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]) as monthMsg, count(Convert(char(10), [dtInsertionTimeStamp], 108)) as ant
FROM [BizTalkDTADb].[dbo].[dta_ServiceInstances] WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE [dtInsertionTimeStamp]
BETWEEN convert(datetime ,'2014-02-10 00:00:00', 120) AND convert(datetime, '2014-02-16 23:59:59', 120)
GROUP BY datepart(dd, [dtInsertionTimeStamp]), datepart(MM, [dtInsertionTimeStamp] )ORDER BY [dateMsg] ASC, [monthMsg]

Also in this script, the “BETWEEN” part can be filled in with a timeframe. Following result is received:

dateMsg
monthMsg
ant
10
2
127369
11
2
183848
12
2
201597
13
2
138431
14
2
132828
15
2
1536
16
2
314

Usage of host instances

SELECT count(Convert(char(10), [dta_ServiceInstances].[dtInsertionTimeStamp], 108)) as ant, [dta_Host].[strHostName]
FROM [BizTalkDTADb].[dbo].[dta_ServiceInstances] WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN [BizTalkDTADb].[dbo].[dta_Host] WITH (NOLOCK) ON
[dta_ServiceInstances].[nHostId]=[dta_Host].[nHostId]
WHERE [dtInsertionTimeStamp]
BETWEEN convert(datetime ,'2014-02-10 00:00:00', 120) AND convert(datetime, '2014-02-10 23:59:59', 120)
GROUP BY [dta_Host].[strHostName] ORDER BY [dta_Host].[strHostName] ASC

In this script, a choice can be made in terms of grouping. When you want to have just the numbers of a timeframe (for example: between feb 01 and feb 15, there were 23,765 calls of MQHostReceive), just add the timeframe in the “BETWEEN” field. If you want the data grouped by day, the script needs to be executed once for every day you want the statistics. Set the “BETWEEN” to 2014-02-12 00:00:00 and 2014-02-12 23:59:59 for example, and you will get the following results:

ant
strHostName
303
NWND_BAM
301
NWND_BizTalkServerAdministation
23217
NWND_BizTalkServerApplication
15
NWND_ClusteredHost_RCV
18
NWND_ClusteredHost_SND
48481
NWND_MQConnectionHost_RCV
18127
NWND_MQConnectionHost_SND
10836
NWND_SAPProcessingHost
164
NWND_SAPLendingHost
2653
NWND_SIEBELProcessingHost
16746
NWND_TECHNICOMProcessingHost
6508
NWND_WCFHost

Largest message(s)

SELECT TOP 5 [dta_MessageInOutEvents].[nMessageSize], [dta_SchemaName].[strSchemaName]
FROM [BizTalkDTADb].[dbo].[dta_MessageInOutEvents] WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN [BizTalkDTADb].[dbo].[dta_SchemaName] WITH (NOLOCK) ON
[dta_MessageInOutEvents].[nSchemaId]=[dta_SchemaName].[nSchemaId]
WHERE [dtInsertionTimeStamp]
BETWEEN convert(datetime ,'2014-01-01 00:00:00', 120) AND convert(datetime, '2014-01-01 23:59:59', 120)
ORDER BY [nMessageSize] DESC

This script will get a top 5 of all the largest messages that passed through BizTalk in the given timeframe. A result like following will pop up:

nMessageSize
strSchemaName
28272537
http://NWD.DataSchema.Issuer.Schemas#Issuers
28272537
28272537
28255369
28255369

If you got any remarks, please leave them in the comment section!

Andrew De Bruyne (@draitnn)