Summary

You have learned a lot about WCF management and monitoring in this chapter. We discussed that you can utilize the following methods to manage WCF services:

• Developers can use custom-built interface to monitor the service activity.

• Developers and system administrators can utilize message logging and tracing in WCF to track and debug the WCF service. They can use SvcTraceViewer.exe to view the message logs and trace data.

• Developers and system administrators can extensively use the SvcConfigEditor.exe tool to modify the configuration files.

• Business users, system administrators, and developers can use the "out-of-the-box" performance counters to monitor service activity. They can also build custom Performance Monitor counters to facilitate business needs.

• Developers and system administrators can use WMI CIM Studio to monitor WMI activity on WCF services.

Now you are familiar with how to manage and monitor web services. WCF security is one of the most intriguing and important topics in WCF. The next chapter will shed some light on this topic.