Monitoring and Maintaining Logs
Monitoring your system logs on a regular basis can help you avoid catastrophic failures and prepare you for unexpected increases in server activity.
At least twice a day, use Event Viewer to review event activity and inform interested parties about any anomalies.
At least once a week, analyze the Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 logs for changes in user-access trends. Ensure that the traffic to your Web site is within the system limitations. You might also want to reconfigure your Web pages or product offerings based on the trend analysis.
Back up and truncate your database logs on a regular schedule. You should copy database logs to an external backup device, such as a tape drive, before deleting them.
Enlist help from an external analysis agent, such as Keynote Systems, to monitor the page latency of your site from many remote locations.
See Also
Monitoring Commerce Server Sites