Summary
mens sana in corpore sano (“A sound mind in a sound body”)
—Juvenal, Satire X
You can see there are two ways to approach monitoring SharePoint: through the general Windows tools like Event Viewer in Server Manager or monitoring in SharePoint Central Administration. Which is better? I think of SharePoint as the mind: it contains the information generated by users and developers. The farm hardware, network, and software is the body: it sustains and holds the SharePoint application. If the body is sound, the mind will be, too. The SharePoint application is so dependent on the network infrastructure that if anything is wrong with SQL Server or Windows or the network, it will affect SharePoint. I tend to keep my monitoring focus on Windows ...
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