The Performance Monitor

You can use Windows Performance Monitor to monitor the health of your replication scenario. When you install SQL Server, you get several new objects and counters in Performance Monitor:

SQLServer:Replication AgentsThis object contains counters used to monitor the status of all replication agents, including the total number running.

SQLServer:Replication DistThis object contains counters used to monitor the status of the distribution agents, including the latency and number of transactions transferred per second.

SQLServer:Replication LogreaderThis object contains counters used to monitor the status of the log reader agent, including the latency and number of transactions transferred per second.

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