As part of the datacenter-wide visibility upgrade I’m working on for a customer, I’m setting up monitoring one of their legacy network applications. This application has no logging support whatsoever, and upgrade path available: the original developers have published a new version 10+ years ago, and have no interest for supporting it apart from (sometimes) replying to support tickets. Thus, to set up at least some basic metrics, the solution I came up with is to monitor the COM+ components that work together to make it up...