# Middleware Monitoring

## Middleware Monitoring Tools

Applications Manager is an effective middleware monitoring tool that helps you track the performance of various middleware and messaging components. It identifies faults and executes automated corrective actions to resolve them promptly, thereby improving the efficiency of your applications.

With Applications Manager's middleware monitoring capabilities, you can:

- Get critical insights about the health and availability of your middleware servers.
- Get notified of issues instantly through a medium of your choice including email, SMS, Slack, etc.
- Analyze various critical performance metrics of middleware servers using comprehensive reports.
- Leverage Machine Learning-enabled Predictive Reports capability to manage your resources better.

## Ensure optimal performance of message brokers

Monitoring the performance of message brokers is crucial to facilitate seamless user experiences. With Applications Manager, monitor various critical message brokers such as:

### Apache Active MQ

Coordinate the flow of messages between clients by tracking critical metrics such as subscriber count, memory usage, thread count, etc.

![Apache Active MQ Middleware Monitoring - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-apache-mq.png)

### Rabbit MQ

Identify and isolate problems in your Rabbit MQ enterprise message broker by monitoring critical performance indicators that give you in depth details about nodes, queues, exchanges, etc.

![Rabbit MQ Middleware Monitoring Solutions - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-rabbitmq.png)

### IBM Websphere MQ

With Applications Manager's IBM middleware monitoring tool, optimize the performance of your Message Oriented Middleware by becoming aware of increasing queue usage, and message count. Administer your middleware configurations and avoid unexpected changes that might cause application outages.

![IBM Middleware Monitoring Software - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-ibm-websphere-mq.png)

### Keep track of Microsoft middleware services

Unravel the path to effortless monitoring of Microsoft middleware services. Visualize data of monitored services into useful performance statistics which can then be used by the enterprise IT team to improve application performance.

![Microsoft Middleware Monitoring Software - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/cloud-sql-db-stats.png)

### Microsoft SharePoint

Manage the applications hosted on the Sharepoint server and get visibility into Sharepoint services. Become aware of failing timer jobs and resolve issues quickly to optimize server performance.

![Middleware Monitor - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-microsoft-sharepoint.jpg)

### Exchange server

Become aware of server downtime, and filling mailboxes. Keep track of various services running on the Exchange server.

![Middleware Management - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-exchange-server.png)

### MSMQ

Monitor your MSMQ middleware proactively and ensure peak performance of applications running on MSMQ.

![Middleware Monitoring Tool - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-msmq.png)

### Microsoft Lync

Ensure optimal performance of Microsoft Lync servers and avoid breaks in communication between critical business applications. Improve end user experience by keeping track of conferencing and mediation servers.

![Monitoring Middleware - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-microsoft-lync.jpg)

### Microsoft BizTalk

Conquer orchestrations problems, identify faults and resolve errors to optimize the performance of your Microsoft BizTalk servers.

![Middleware portal Monitoring Tools - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-microsoft-biztalk.png)

### Microsoft Azure Bus

Evaluate the health and availability of the Microsoft Windows Azure Bus. Monitor pivotal metrics such as messages, queues, topics, etc.

![Azure Bus Middleware Monitoring Software - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-microsoft-azure-service-bus.png)

## Discover the road to seamless functioning of Oracle middleware components

### Weblogic Integration Server

Get out-of-the-box monitoring and management of the performance of Weblogic integration servers. Track key metrics such as database connection pools, servlets, JVM memory usage, user sessions, etc.

![Middleware integration Monitoring Software - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-weblogic-integration.png)

### Oracle Tuxedo

Track the transactions occurring in your application and ensure that the application does not get overloaded. Monitor responsiveness of the server and optimize application performance.

![Middleware messaging Monitoring - ManageEngine Applications Manager](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/images/middleware-oracle-tuxedo.jpg)

## Common queries on middleware monitoring

### What is middleware?

Middleware is a program or software used between an operating system and the applications running on it, primarily to provide additional capabilities. In enterprise environments, it is widely used as a communication platform for distributed applications.

### How to monitor middleware performance?

You can track middleware performance with a proactive tool like [Applications Manger](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/) that provides real-time performance data about the health and availability of the middleware server. It can also identify issues and helps discover root cause of the same thereby reducing MTTR. [Download now.](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/download.html)

### What are some use cases of middleware monitoring?

Monitoring middleware portal with Applications Manager can help you:

- Get notified when the message queue is full and the server is getting overloaded.
- Trigger an alert when the latency crosses a set threshold.
- Regularly check the availability of the server.