Hi!

Did you know that Grant Holliday has recently announced TFS Performance Report Pack? Several useful reports are available now, so anyone may install them on his own server and monitor TFS server’s performance. According to Grant, the plan is to eventually roll the reports into a power tool release or a subsequent release of VSTS. But we will know more about it when it happens (or if it happens).

Here are the reports available:

Execution Time Summary - visualizes the load, in this case reflected by total execution time, on the server from two axes: users and commands
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Server Status - Source Control Request Queue – provides a view into the queue of a series of requests that get queued to be processed as transactions are committed to the database.

Server Status - Top Users Bypassing Proxies - allows administrators a view into which users are not complying with internal guidelines and hence decreasing overall server performance.

Server Status - Historical Performance Trends - summarizes the average response time for two of the Team Foundation Server subsystems: Work Item Tracking and Version Control.

Server Status - Recent Performance Trends - provides more data granularity about the performance of the server.

This is just an overview, you know. Simply to get you informed in case you haven’t heard about it yet. You will find more details at Grant Holliday’s.