http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/tags/Diagnostics/default.aspxTags: Diagnosticsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2009/02/05/3197739.aspxThu, 05 Feb 2009 23:08:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3197739Kelley Vice5http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/comments/3197739.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3197739<p>The real power of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is that they can be endlessly customized to meet a wide variety of business needs. The Protean nature of SharePoint is at once its most powerful feature and its most formidable; the complexity of your SharePoint environment can increase by orders of magnitude when you begin to shape it to suit your needs. This complexity can make troubleshooting SharePoint issues a daunting task, as many different data points from different sources must be correlated and analyzed. </p> <p>The <b>SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool</b> greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database. </p> <p>With SPDiag, you can:</p> <ul> <li>Collect IIS and ULS log files, performance counter data, event logs, and WMI instrumentation data from&nbsp;a SharePoint&nbsp;farm.</li> <li>Filter data to show granular information related to specific servers, Web applications, HTTP requests, event IDs, URI queries, and almost any other data points captured through supported channels. </li> <li>Create custom reports that can help reveal performance trends over time.</li> <li>Create snapshots of your SharePoint farm that include detailed information about your farm’s hardware, installed software and logical topology. </li> <li>Export collected data and reports that can be sent to Microsoft support personnel.</li></ul> <p>SPDiag is included in the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0, available for download at the following locations:</p> <ul> <li>Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504" mce_href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504</a> </li> <li>Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035" mce_href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035">http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035</a> </li></ul> <p>Documentation for SPDiag is available from those download pages as well.</p><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3197739" width="1" height="1">ToolkitTroubleshootingDiagnostics