Foglight for Exchange 5.7.2.3 - Foglight for Office 365 User Guide

Monitoring your environment

The Monitoring tab of the Office 365 Environment dashboard displays a summary of the Exchange Online services and the ADFS services (Active Directory® Federation Services) being monitored and their current state. It show performance and availability metrics provided by the Microsoft® Exchange online (SaaS).

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Accessing the Monitoring tab

The Monitoring tab provides a summary of the Foglight for Office 365 services and the ADFS services in your Exchange environment. This tab consists of the following views:

Foglight for Office 365 Environment Overview

The Foglight for Office 365 Environment Overview is located across the top of the Office 365 Environment dashboard. It provides an overview of your Exchange Online environment.

The overview contains a tile for the following object types in your Exchange environment: Exchange Online services and ADFS services. It shows the number of objects in the environment and a count of objects in each of the alarm states (fatal, critical, warning, and normal).

Clicking the tile displays summary information for that object in the Quick View. Clicking an alarm state (for example, warning) on the tile displays summary information in the Quick View for the objects that are in the selected alarm state.

Foglight for Office 365 Environment Quick View

The Foglight for Office 365 Environment Quick View is located across the middle of the Office 365 Environment dashboard.

The following illustration is an example of the Exchange Online Quick View, displayed when the Exchange Online tile is selected in the Foglight for Office 365 Environment Overview.

The Foglight for Office 365 Environment Quick View displays summary information pertaining to the component selected from the Foglight for Office 365 Environment Overview and Object Tree view. For example:

The Foglight for Office 365 Environment Quick View consists of the following embedded views:

The Object Tree view is located at the left of the Foglight for Office 365 Environment Quick View and displays objects based on the tile selected in the Foglight for Office 365 Environment Overview. Use the Object Tree view to select a single object or a group of objects of a particular type for display in the Object Summary view.

The Object Summary view is located to the right of the Object Tree view and displays summary information for a single object or a group of objects, depending on what is selected in the Object Tree view. It provides a quick and easy view into the items that make up the selected object and the alarm states of these items.

In addition, in the top right corner of the Object Summary view there is an Explore button. Click this button to navigate to the Foglight for Office 365 Explorer dashboards, for more detailed metrics about the selected object or group of objects.

The following table lists the information displayed on the Object Summary view when different objects are selected.

This functionality in this view will be available in a future release.

The Alarms view that appears at the bottom of the Foglight for Office 365 Environment Quick View displays a sortable list of all the outstanding alarms for the item selected in the Object Tree view.