Latest Contributions by DerekLaw

ArcGIS Monitor provides observability by collecting metrics on the health, performance, and usage of your enterprise GIS. It is designed to help administrators and managers ensure their ArcGIS Enterprise deployments are working efficiently by reducing and preventing system downtime, resulting in operational cost savings.   This great blog by Lionel Todome from Esri France, discusses observability​, one of the key pillars of the ArcGIS Well architected framework, and how Monitor helps with proactive management of your enterprise GIS.  Discover ArcGIS Monitor: monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance of your ArcGIS GIS (blog is written in French, but can be easily translated within a web browser)            ... View more

If you're running ArcGIS Enterprise, then you should be using ArcGIS Monitor - it collects metrics on the health, performance, and usage of your Enterprise GIS to optimize your GIS and IT investment. It help administrators and GIS Manager ensure their ArcGIS Enterprise deployments are working efficiently by reducing and preventing system downtime; resulting in operational cost savings. ArcGIS Monitor supports the observability pillar , a best practice of the ArcGIS Architecture Center.  FYI, ArcGIS Monitor 2025.1 introduced the concept of component relationship graphs, which allows you to visualize relationships and dependencies of your enterprise GIS assets using component relationship graphs. Learn more in this blog.  To learn more at FedGIS 2026, attend the technical workshop:  ArcGIS Monitor: Observability for Your Mission-Critical GIS Operations Wed Feb 11; 11 am Room 144C | WEWCC  As federal agencies continue to expand their ArcGIS deployments, ensuring system performance and scalability becomes increasingly challenging. ArcGIS Monitor proactively identifies issues such as slow services, resource bottlenecks, and system outages before they impact mission-critical functions. Learn about analysis views and alerts on system resources, response times and service availability, as well as graphs that show relationships for components and their dependencies.  FYI: some ArcGIS Monitor customer success stories ... View more

Orange County, Virginia maintains a large ArcGIS Enterprise deployment with numerous services running concurrently. While most services experience moderate usage, one parcel service receives the majority of incoming requests and supports a heavily used public-facing application. Over time, this service began exhibiting long load times, request timeouts, and inconsistent performance, issues that directly impacted staff workflows and the public user experience.  Blue Raster partnered with Orange County to implement ArcGIS Monitor with a focus on turning raw system metrics into actionable insight. Rather than overwhelming the GIS administrator with data, the goal was to surface the information that mattered most, clearly and immediately.  Learn more by reading the user story, Improving ArcGIS Enterprise Performance for Orange County, Virginia with ArcGIS Monitor ... View more

The ArcGIS Monitor team is evaluating adding Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to help admins better manage enterprise GIS deployments. This is in the early planning stages so please don't expect anything in the next release.  Please complete this short survey (7 questions) to help guide future development efforts. If you would like to share direct feedback, please indicate you're interested in a follow up meeting. Thank you in advance for your feedback!  ArcGIS Monitor - AI Feedback Survey  ... View more