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IIS Status is a tool that monitors in real-time the requests processed by IIS.

It produces on-demand reports of the current status of Internet Information Server (IIS).

IIS Status is a freeware tool that we make available to all.

Since a substantial part of our work involves using Microsoft Internet Information Server, it is important that we know exactly what the server is doing at a specific moment in time, and so we built a tool to help us.

This utility is similar to the server-status module provided with the Apache web server. IIS Status links into the web server as an ISAPI filter to record each request as it is received and processed by the server.

It can also be called via CGI to produce an HTML table containing a list of currently active requests, and information about where the requests came from and which virtual server they are related to.

We have found this debugging and monitoring tool to be particularly useful when diagnosing problems associated with ASP pages and server crashes, because it allows us to see into the internals of IIS in real-time. Real-time monitoring of IIS is almost impossible using the standard log files.

Use this tool to monitor exactly what your ASP pages are doing and reduce time spent debugging. IISStatus is a Freeware product at this time. In future, we will be releasing enchanced versions of IISStatus although these releases may not be freeware.

A freeware version of IISStatus can be downloaded from here.

If you find IISStatus of use and want to help us continue supporting it then please feel free to make a donation.