Hosting Chat Communities

Chat Performance Counters

You use Performance Monitor counters to monitor Chat Service activity. For this purpose, Chat Service provides several client-to-server and server-to-server counters to indicate whether Chat Service is processing data. When these counters approach zero, Chat Service either has little or no data to process (that is, few or no requested client connections), or the service is not functioning properly.

Counter	Description
Active DNS logon threads	The total number of worker threads waiting to process DNS lookup requests.
	Note If this value is high, you may be experiencing DNS server failures.
Anonymous Clients	The number of anonymous clients currently connected to this chat community.
Authenticated Clients	The number of authenticated clients currently connected to this chat community.
Authentication Failures	The total number of failed authentication attempts by users trying to connect to the chat server.
	Note If this value is high, it may indicate an attack on your server.
Channel Creates	The total number of channels that have been created in this chat community since the chat service was started.
Channel Creates/sec	The rate of new channel creations per second.
Channel Deletes	The total number of channels that have been deleted in this chat community since the chat service was started.
Channel Deletes/sec	The rate of channel deletions per second.
Channel Joins	The total number of users who have joined a channel since the chat service was started.
Channel Joins/sec	The rate of users joining channels per second.
Channel Parts	The total number of users who have left (parted from) a channel since the chat service was started.
Channel Parts/sec	The rate at which users leaving (parting from) channels per second.
Channels	The number of channels currently available in the chat community.
Client Bytes Queued	The number of bytes currently waiting for transmission from the chat server to clients.
Client Bytes Received	The total number of bytes of data received from clients by the chat server since the chat service was started.
Client Bytes Received/sec	The rate at which bytes of data are received from client connections per second.
Client Bytes Sent	The total number of bytes of data sent from the chat server to clients since the chat service was started.
Client Bytes Sent/sec	The rate at which bytes of data are sent to client connections per second.
Client Connections	The number of clients currently connected to the chat server.
Client Connects	The total number of clients that have connected to the chat server since the chat service was started.
Client Connects/sec	The rate at which clients are connecting to the chat server per second.
Client Disconnects/sec	The total number of clients that have disconnected from the chat server since the chat service was started. (This value includes forced disconnects by the administrator.)
Client Disconnects/sec	The rate at which clients are disconnecting from the chat server per second. The rate of client disconnections. (This value includes forced disconnects by the administrator.)
Client Messages Received/sec	The rate at which messages are received from client connections per second.
Client Messages Sent/sec	The rate at which messages are sent to client connections per second.
Client Operator Killed Disconnects	The total number of clients disconnected from the chat server using the IRC KILL command since the chat service was started.
Client Timeout Related Disconnects	The total number of clients disconnected because of a PING timeout.
	Note If this value is high, it may indicate network lag or a malfunction of the client's computer.
Clients	The number of clients currently connected to the chat community.
Connection Attempts	The total number of times a client has attempted to connect to the chat server.
DNS Logon Failures	The total number of DNS lookup failures since the chat service was started.
	Note If this value is high, it may indicate that your DNS server is down.
Nickname Collisions	The total number of times a user has tried to enter a chat community with a nickname that already exists in the community.
Server Operations Queued	The number of pending server operations.
Server Operations Queued/sec	The number of new pending server operations added per second.
Unknown Clients	The number of clients not currently identified by protocol type and still in the process of logging on.
Worker Threads Active	The number of threads working on the server.
Worker Threads Idle	The number of worker threads waiting to process network I/O.