I have had several clients wanting to monitor BizTalk in a production environment; they have their own management tools (similar to MOM). What they want is to provide is a list of the events (event ID, error, warning, etc.) that BizTalk and SSO will log to the event log.

Whilst I firmly support MOM, it is one of the best tools for monitoring, there are other tools on the market. Much like integration most of our time is spent working out non Microsoft systems, sometimes on different platforms completely, this is no different. Quite a few of my clients use alternative monitoring systems, that they have spent vast sums of money on. (Yes a far greater cost than MOM.)

I researched the events that BizTalk provided, these are not really published anywhere, not even in the documentation. So I constructed a list, for BizTalk Server Core, and SSO events, I managed to get every event that BizTalk and SSO will post to the event log., with the event ID.

Intrested in my efforts? Well download it here for BizTalk 2006: BizTalkCoreEvents and SSOEvents in english only.

I have gone through each of these events and classified them into important ones to monitor, items that need to be monitored if they occur x times, and items to be ignored. This needs to be done even with MOM, to ensure that the monitoring is useful, and not just over kill of events that someone needs to figure out the importance of.