Monitoring Microsoft Yammer

To monitor the managed Microsoft Yammer, login to the eG management console as a user with monitoring privileges.

Browse the Components At-A-Glance section of the Monitor Home page that appears, and locate the Microsoft Yammer component type. Click on the bar that corresponds to this component type. This will lead you to the Layers tab page, where you can view the monitoring model for Microsoft Yammer (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 : Layer model for the Microsoft Yammer component

Each layer of Figure 1 is mapped to tests that report on a wide variety of KPIs such as availability, service health and user analytics of Microsoft Yammer. Using these metrics, administrators can find quick and accurate answers to the following performance queries:

  • How many TCP connections to the Microsoft Yammer service was successful and how many failed?
  • How quickly is the Microsoft Yammer responding to TCP connection requests?
  • Is any service experiencing a service incident? What type of an incident is it?
  • How many messages were liked by the users on all communities/groups created on Microsoft Yammer?
  • How many messages were posted by the users to all communities/groups created on Microsoft Yammer?
  • How many messages were read by the users from all communities/groups created on Microsoft Yammer?
  • How many communities/groups are created on Microsoft Yammer? Among them, how many are currently active?
  • How many messages were posted, liked and read by each user on the communities/groups created on Microsoft Yammer?
  • What is the overall count of messages that were liked by the users on Microsoft Yammer?
  • What is the overall count of messages posted by the users on Microsoft Yammer?
  • Which type of activity was most frequently performed by the users on Microsoft Yammer - is liking? or is it posting? or is it reading the messages?
  • How many users are currently active / inactive on Microsoft Yammer?
  • How may unique users are accessing Microsoft Yammer using each type of device for e.g, iPhone, iPad, Android phone etc? Which type of device is most popular among the users to login to Microsoft Yammer?

For more information on the Network layer, refer to the Monitoring Unix and Windows Servers document. This topic on the other hand, will elaborate on each of the top 4 layers of Figure 1, the tests mapped to it, and the measures it reports, using the following sub-topics.

The Network Layer

The Tenant Layer

The Yammer Groups Layer

The Yammer Users Layer

The User Experience Layer