Hello All, 

What I feel is that we should not have too many host instances on the BizTalk server as they will consumes computer resources (such as CPU, memory, threads). As per me, the apt number is 5: Receive, Send, Process, Isolated and Tracking.

But the issue is that we have 20 applications running on our production machine and client want to have some perfmom counters for each application then in that case we will have to have separate host instances for each application so 5 host instances for each application which will make it a total of 100 host instances. So, wanted to know how good this idea is? would it affect my production server a lot if we end up having 100 host instances. ?

Each Host Instance equates to a Windows Process. How many Windows Processes you can run on the machine depends on the H/W you have. So yes you can have 100 host instances.

Regarding your requirement for application specific performance counters or will having application specific tracing work for you? You can create application specific traces using the Enterprise Library Logging block or on your own.

Regards.

Thanks for the reply.

One thing what I knew is that we can have perfmom counters on the different host instances that we have. but is it possible to have application specific cchecks even if they are using the same host instances? 

and wont having too many host instances affect the performance of the server ? 

• Edited by abh_inventive_genius 17 minutes ago