Monitor IIS 6.0

Question

What good tools can I use to monitor IIS. What is included seems to be not as useful as I'd like. I realize I can add performance counters; those don't tell me very much; it's just a collections of properties that are plugged into a generic graphing tool.

I have problems with old legacy applications hanging and various and sundry other things. Also, when I need to get basic information like how many connections I have in IIS and their details I don't know what to do. I've googled extensively and I cannot find much. I find some log parsers, but I want real time. I found some commerical tools that don't really seem quite what I want, besides I'd like to find something free. This is very basic stuff that is pretty easy to get in Apache. I found IISTracer but I am a bit skeptical of it; I did install and try it out. Is there anything else? Some of these legacy applications are classic ASP so just a CLR Profiler isn't what I'm looking for, although those are handy.

EDIT: Is IISTracer really the only tool like this out there for IIS?

Answer 1

Tools for Troubleshooting IIS 6.0

IIS Request Monitor (IIS 6.0)

One of the techniques for tracking down and mitigating problems with badly behaving sites is to use Application Pools. This article shows how to set one up.

It has also been mentioned here on SO:

• What causes an application pool in IIS to recycle?

• Pros and cons of having dedicated application pools over keeping web applications in one default app pool