Tracking events in BizTalk Server

Tracking events in BizTalk Server can be an expensive but valuable endeavor. This activity is expensive as BizTalk will now need to look for specific properties or message bodies within Message or Orchestration instances and record this data. This activity can reduce the throughput of BizTalk Server but can become extremely beneficial in support scenarios. If you have ever participated in a BizTalk Project that involved multiple teams, you will inevitably have been asked "What happened with message XYZ?" The tracking capabilities of BizTalk allow you to solve the mystery much more easily.

In this section, we are going to discuss some of the different ways in which a BizTalk Administrator can track events as they occur inside BizTalk.

Tracking Receive Ports

We can enable our tracking properties on a Receive Port by right-clicking on the Receive Port and then selecting Properties. Once you go into the Property screen of the Receive Port, we need to click on the...