ArcGIS Monitor: Exploring the Check-Service Observer

[DerekLaw]

At the ArcGIS Monitor 2024.1 release, a Check-Service observer was introduced. This observer allows a Representational State Transfer (REST) request to be configured against a registered service component, which enables admins to apply requests to monitor a variety of scenarios. 

This blog discusses 3 example use cases for using the Check-Service observer to apply some simple health and performance tests against a service component. The use cases are:

1. Test to check features in a feature service
2. Test response time for an export map operation on a map service
3. Test for a specific response from a feature service (to check data integrity)

The intention is to illustrate the potential of the Check-Service observer to help admins test health and performance of Monitor service components.

ArcGIS Monitor: Exploring the Check-Service Observer 

[ChaseBarnard]

I’m interested in using the Check-Service observer to alert me when a service(s) go down. Am I correct in assuming that in order to do that, you would need to configure the observer with each REST Service component individually?

[DerekLaw]

Hi @ChaseBarnard,

>  Am I correct in assuming that in order to do that, you would need to configure the observer with each REST Service component individually?

Yes that is correct. 

EDIT: alternatively, please take a look at this thread, ArcGIS Monitor 2025 - does it report mapservice crashing

And you can batch configure alerts for the same component types. 

Hope this helps,