Performance Metrics for Windows Failover Cluster

Get the number and status of all the nodes in a Windows cluster, network reconnections, storage stats, and state of the resource groups. The cluster monitor uses the Site24x7 Windows agent for monitoring. Install the Windows agent and get your failover clusters auto-discovered.

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Interpret Microsoft Failover Cluster Performance Metrics

The following metrics are provided for the Failover Cluster monitor:

Cluster View: Details on the number of nodes, networks, online and offline resource groups are listed.
Performance: Metrics related to resource stats and network messages communicated.
Networks: Name, address, status of the network, along with bytes received/sent per second are specified.
Storage: Data on the cluster disk including free space, used space, and total space available are tabulated.
Resource Groups: Name, status, and the nodes in which the resource group is running are given.

Cluster View

Parameters	Description
Cluster View	A global status view for all nodes in a failover cluster
Nodes:
Node Name	Name of the node
CPU (%)	CPU utilized by the node
Memory (%)	Amount of memory utilized by the node
Disk Used (%)	Amount of disk utilized by the node
Status	The current status of the node is declared as UP or DOWN
Cluster Details:
Number of Nodes	The total number of nodes in a cluster
Maximum Number of Nodes	The maximum number of nodes that can participate in a cluster
Number of Networks	The number of networks used by the server cluster for communication
Disks in Use	The number of disks currently in use in the cluster
Quorum Path	The path to the quorum files
Quorum Type	The current quorum type
Resources Online	The count of resources that are currently online
Resources Offline	The count of resources that are currently offline
Resource Groups Online	The count of resource groups that are currently online
Resource Groups Offline	The count of resource groups that are currently offline
Nodes:
Name	Gives the label by which the node is known
Timer Service	Status of the 'Windows time' service
Status	Tells us the current status of the node. The node state can be up, down, joining, paused, and unknown

Performance

Parameters	Description
Multicast Request Reply	Communication primitive in the cluster, that allows nodes to send a call to multiple recipients and then get response from all of them
Resource Control Manager	A component used in the cluster to manage the resources
Network Bytes Used	Cluster network bytes sent and received
Network Messages Communicated	Cluster network messages sent and received
Network Reconnections:
Normal Messages Queue Length	Specifies the number of messages in the queue waiting to be sent
Normal Messages Queue Length Delta	Specifies the incoming message rate to the queue
Urgent Message Queue Length	Specifies the number of urgent messages in the queue waiting to be sent
Urgent Message Queue Length Delta	Specifies the incoming message rate to the queue
Reconnect Count	Specifies the number of times the TCP connection was broken and reestablished
Resource Type Stats:
Resource Type	Type of the resource
Resource Failure	The number of times the Resource Host Subsystem gets terminated due to a resource failure
Resource Failure Access Violation	Indicates the number of times the Resource Host Subsystem gets terminated due to a resource failure, caused by access violation
Resource Failure Deadlock	Indicates the number of times the Resource Host Subsystem gets terminated due to a resource failure, caused by a deadlock

Networks

Parameters	Description
Networks:
Name	Name of the network
Address	Gives the address for the entire network or subnet
Role	Specifies the role of the network in the cluster
Status	Tells us the current state of the network
Nodes:
Name	Name of the node
Bytes Received (MB)	The number of new cluster message bytes received on the network per second
Bytes Sent (MB)	The number of new cluster message bytes sent over the network per second
Messages Received	The number of new cluster messages received on the network per second
Messages Sent	The number of new cluster messages sent over the network per second

Storage

Parameters	Description
Path	The path of the cluster disk
Volume Label	Gives information on the volume label of the disk partition
Total Size (MB)	The total size of the partition
Used (MB)	The total used space in the partition
Free (MB)	The total free space available for the partition
Used (%)	The percentage of used space in the partition
Free (%)	The percentage of free space in the partition

Resource Groups

Parameters	Description
Resource Group View	A global status view for all the resource groups in a failover cluster
Name	The name of the Resource Group
Current Node	The node in which the resource group is currently running
Preferred Node	Gives the preferred node names in the cluster, to which the resource can failover/failback
Status	The current status of the resource group