Finding a Component Id in Monitor 2023.2.0

Question

Hello, I am having some trouble setting up Notifications in Monitor 2023.2.0. I have a component (service) that is extremely critical to a high-stakes application we are rolling out. I would like to get a notification if that service fails to respond to a critical number of requests. I have the proper Alert set up and the threshold values defined, but when I go to create a Notification so I could get an email if the Alert is triggered, I have no idea what I am doing.

For the notification, I have it set to notify when Alerts = Updated And Component ID = ????. How do I find a given component's ID? I can't seem to find anything in the component's setting page, so I'm unsure how I would get this info. If anyone has ideas, please let me know.

Derek Law · Answer

Hi @GrantSmith122,

Apologies for the late reply. I was working at the ERGIS 2025 conference last week in Houston, TX.

>  Yesterday at 2:30 pm, the component ID was 11050569; this morning at 8:45 am the component ID has now changed to 11716560. How could this possibly be?

I have not seen this behavior in ArcGIS Monitor before. Once a component is "registered" with Monitor, it is assigned a unique ID and this value does not change.

The only think I can think of, in the time period from 2:30 pm to the next day at 8:45 am - was the service republished? Perhaps someone re-published the service with some data updates? I think this might change the component ID. I'm sorry that it messed up your configured notifications.

Since last Wed, have you noticed the component ID changing again? or has it remained the same value of 11716560?

GrantSmith122 · Answer

Hey Derek,

I upgraded to 2023.3.1, I can now more clearly see the component and metric ID values, but I am growing increasingly frustrated with how the IDs act. I've attached 2 screenshots of one of my components (map server on a standalone ArcGIS Server). Yesterday at 2:30 pm, the component ID was 11050569; this morning at 8:45 am the component ID has now changed to 11716560. How could this possibly be?

This is very frustrating since I spent a bunch of time yesterday setting up notifications for specific components and metrics, but now everything is broken because all the ID values change. I did not mess with any component registrations in ArcGIS Monitor and nothing was done to the ArcGIS Server overnight to cause any disruptions.

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Derek Law · Answer

Hi @GrantSmith122,

> I haven't considered upgrading but should maybe look into that.

FYI, ArcGIS Monitor 2023.2 was retired in Dec 2024. Please see the ArcGIS Monitor product life cycle document. I recommend you upgrade Monitor.

> To confirm I cannot see something's ID in 2023.2 on the Overview tab.

Correct. We added this functionality in Monitor 2023.3, see the release blog (side note).

> What is strange to me is that I can (possibly) see the component ID for a given item in the URL, but those ID values then don't appear in the notification setup.

Perhaps when we enabled displaying the component ID on component overview pages in Monitor 2023.3, we also made it a queryable attribute field for configuring notifications? It's been over a year so I cannot recall exactly.

Can you at least upgrade to the Monitor 2023.3.1 release? I know moving to Monitor 2024.x is a bigger lift because of the requirement to install AM Agents on host machines.

Hope this helps,