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This article describes what’s new and improved in the latest version of Syskit Insights.
Syskit Insights 3.0 has arrived. This version will provide SharePoint admins and company managers with health overview of your environment. Receive simple report on your email regularly and browse it in minutes to spot trends and see the state of your environment.
Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Product version: 3.0.0 Build number: 853 Release date: Dec 19, 2018
Click here to download the new release.
Health Overview report: Receive a daily or weekly pdf report about the state of your environments . Schedule the report to arrive either daily or weekly. For detailed information, see this article.
Refresh Farm Configuration. When adding a new server to a farm, you don’t need to add it manually. Simply click the Refresh Farm Configuration button on the Farms tab and all new servers will be added.
We have improved the way we detect and handle SQL clusters, and in general all high availability technologies. In addition, SQL named instances are now fully supported.
When sending an Event Alert email, we now attach an excel file containing all the relevant logs.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.
This article describes what’s new and improved in the latest version of Syskit Insights.
Syskit Insights 1.1.0 delivers a fresh set of new features created to make your monitoring tasks a lot easier. Keep on scrolling and see what's new!
Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Product version: 1.1.0 Build number: 484 Release date: Aug 2, 2018
Click here to download the new release.
Intra-farm latency! We now check intra-farm latency. In 10-minute intervals, we ping every server in the farm. According to Microsoft’s hardware requirements, 99.9% of pings must be under 1 ms. If they’re not, we will notify you. For detailed information about this feature, check out our help article.
We heard your requests, and now the entire Syskit Insights application is accessible via browser as a web application, making it easier than ever to share reports and event log searches with your colleagues. For more information, click here.
Event Viewer export: Previously, you could only export 1,000 events to Excel. You can now specify the number of exportable events.
In the performance counters screen, it is now possible to disable the instance (hard drive) you do not wish to track. Furthermore, some hard drives (such as Witness drives) are hidden by default.
Alongside SharePoint Timer Service, you can now also track SharePoint Search Service and SharePoint User Profile Service. If any of these services is stopped, we will notify you.
We’ve added Syskit Insights Maintenance service. Now, the Agent and the newly added Maintenance Service will start each other if one of them fails or is unexpectedly stopped.
In the Manage Alerts form – Performance Counters section, you will now immediately see a green dot if alerting for the corresponding counter is enabled.
It is now possible to check the status of more than just one SharePoint site. Also, the site check URL must begin with htttp:// or https://.
We’ve added alerts and latency sections to the Home Dashboard.
Forwarded events had a delay in collection; thus, the collection did not work properly. The issue is now fixed and the events can be accessed normally in the Event Viewer.
Fixed an issue with ULS log collection if the ULS log path was not set to default.
Fixed a bug which caused the Alerts form to behave in an unexpected manner.
Numerous smaller improvements and UI tweaks.
This article describes what’s new and improved in the latest version of Syskit Insights.
This is a minor release and it brings some quality of life improvements.
Product version: 3.1.0 Build number: 905 Release date: Jan 10, 2019
Syskit Insights will constantly monitor your servers and send you real-time email alerts when one or more of your servers go offline. You will know at what time exactly your servers became unavailable.
You can now allow web app access to individual users or security groups. You don’t have to add individual users anymore, but simply allow access to groups such as IT department or SharePoint Admins, and if someone new joins the group they will automatically have app access.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.
This article describes what’s new and improved in the latest version of Syskit Insights.
This release is all about the Page Performance! From now on, you can monitor End-User Experience and proactively track if your SharePoint pages are slow for your users. Syskit Insights now supports SharePoint on-premises, SharePoint Online, and hybrid SharePoint environments. You can easily monitor simple but essential information like page's uptime, load time, or more complex, like every loaded element of a page to find the cause of the slowdown.
Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Product version: 2.0.0 Build number: 802 Release date: Oct 30, 2018
The main new feature in this release is Page Performance! It allows you to monitor SharePoint pages, and gain valuable insights into their performance. Receive alerts and spot critical metrics for each monitored page. You can also export SharePoint page performance metrics and drill down to find trends and improve the experience for your users. Oh, SharePoint Online pages are also supported! :)
For detailed information about this feature, please see .
Full support for SharePoint 2019
The dashboard has been redesigned and improved! The left-hand side gives an overview of all your farms and the servers in them, while the right-hand side shows the content, with an overview of your logs, alerts, performance counters, SharePoint service status, farm latency, and page performance.
The Syskit Insights web application can now be started with a desktop shortcut.
The SharePoint search service is now checked only on a SP Search Server. The User Profile Service is disabled by default.
It has come to our attention that latency alerts were being sent way too often. So, the default period for latency alerts has been increased from 30 minutes to 12 hours.
We have added a Event type (SQL, ULS, Event Log) column to the event log export.
There are numerous performance improvements.
Fixed an issue when the deleted server remained visible on the Latency tab
Fixed an issue with detecting multiple agents during an upgrade.
Fixed an issue when trying to use the “none” grouping of servers on the Performance tab.
Fixed an issue with the collection of ULS logs on SharePoint 2019 farms.
This article describes what’s new and improved in the latest version of Syskit Insights.
This is a minor release that comes with critical bug fixes and brings some quality of life improvements.
Product version: 3.2.0 Build number: 929 Release date: Dec 10, 2019
Fixed a critical bug where Intra Farm Latency was not collected.
Added additional logging for easier troubleshooting of various issues.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.
With the introduction of the Page Performance feature, the “Site Collections are unavailable” alert has become obsolete. See for more information on how to monitor your pages with the new Page Performance feature.
The Express license has been discontinued. Instead, you can use the free tool
Your feedback and suggestions will help us build better SharePoint admin tools, so please feel free to and send us your feedback and suggestions.
This article describes what’s new and improved in the latest version of Syskit Insights.
This is a service release and it brings only a couple of changes.
Product version: 1.1.1 Build number: 514 Release date: Aug 28, 2018
Click here to download the new release.
Fixed an issues with Manage Alerts form. Before, Syskit Insights would not save any alert changes.
Fixed an issue with Event Viewer refiners. The refiners are now showing the correct count of found issues, taking into account the query text, time and the log type.
This article describes what is this new SharePoint performance monitoring and troubleshooting tool bringing in the first release.
Performance monitoring is always hot topic when you are dealing with SharePoint. People may have different points of view of what exactly SharePoint performance monitoring is, but they will have one common thought: being proactive and knowing your environment's state at any time of day is always the way to go.
Syskit Insights is a SharePoint-dedicated farm performance and troubleshooting tool, created to make your life easier. Let's see what this version of the tool is bringing to the table.
Product version: 1.0.0 Build number: 345 Release date: Mar 7, 2018
The tool offers three possibilities – adding a single farm, scanning the entire environment to collect all accessible farms, or importing SharePoint servers directly from SPDocKit. Regardless of the method you choose, you won't need to install the tool on any other environment that you wish to monitor – Syskit Insights gathers all the information remotely.
Add Farm – simply type in one SharePoint server from the farm you wish to monitor, and Syskit Insights will detect all other servers automatically.
Scan – run Syskit Insights wizard to crawl the entire environment and present all accessible farms you might want to monitor. If you don't want to crawl the entire domain, choose a specific Organization Unit in which Syskit Insights will look for the farms.
Import from SPDocKit – if you already have SPDocKit installed in your environment, you can connect it with Syskit Insights and all the servers you are monitoring with SPDocKit will be added and monitored automatically.
Read more about Farms screen possibilities and management options.
Home dashboard gives you the global state of your farms and servers.
The Performance part will alert you to the top 5 critical servers when it comes to disk usage, CPU utilization, and memory consumption. Also, you will get straightforward information how many servers are critical or in the warning phases. You can drill down to see more details about each component.
The other part of the Home screen will show you how many Event Viewer entries were detected per farm, sorted by source, server, and level. The “Entries by day” chart can help you detect trends on which days are the most critical when it comes to number of issues with regards to ULS, event log, or SQL entries.
Read more about Home Dashboard.
Syskit Insights collects all available ULS, Windows event, and SQL logs from all added servers. These entries are presented in one central console which allows you to search by server, correlation ID, any other keyword, or even the level of events. You can also change the period for which you want to search the logs through.
With Syskit Insights, you no longer have to manually search for important ULS or SQL entries from multiple servers when trying to troubleshoot your environment. This single point of interaction will present you with all the important information gathered from your servers.
If you wish to proactively track a certain issue or keyword, you can create an alert to receive notifications at a specified email address or just monitor them from the Syskit Insights Alerts tab.
Read more about Event Viewer functionality.
The Performance Dashboard gives you a centralized overview of your farms’ health. Servers that are healthy will be colored green, servers in the warning phase will be yellow, and the most problematic ones will be red.
One glance at this dashboard and you will see which servers you should be dealing with as soon as possible. The state of a servers is calculated based on the thresholds for each of the 30-plus SharePoint-dedicated performance counters. Drill down by each server or farm to explore in more detail every performance counter and track which component is the reason for SharePoint performance downgrading.
Syskit Insights can save performance data up to 30 days, so you can use historical data to track each server's baseline during optimal performance.
Create performance alerts to actively monitor all your servers and receive email notifications when something goes wrong. Acting in time will prevent your SharePoint from becoming slow or even going down.
Read more about Performance functionality.
To keep up with potential bottlenecks and problems detected in your environment, we created the Alerts tab. Here you can track down all performance alerts, Event Viewer entries you marked as potentially interesting and problematic, and the results of SharePoint status inspections. SharePoint status alerts can help you detect if your Central Administration and most important site collection on the farm are inaccessible, or if the SharePoint Timer service has stopped working.
Use the Manage Alerts button to add new alerts, change thresholds for critical and warning states, or modify current alert settings.
Read more about Alerts.
For complete control of Syskit Insights, check out the Settings section. Here you can configure the email settings needed to send email notifications, modify which logs will be collected, and other data collection options.
Read more about available configurable Settings.
Your feedback and suggestions will help us build better SharePoint admin tools, so please feel free to contact us and send us your feedback and suggestions.
