Learn NServiceBus and the Service Platform

We've lined up and organized the most important content, from materials to get started, all the way to getting ready for production.

Monitoring & diagnostics

Logging
Learn how to plug the logging infrastructure of your choice into your NServiceBus endpoints.
Introduction to monitoring
Monitoring is a complex topic; this introduction covers the metrics your NServiceBus system should be monitoring.
Challenges of monitoring a distributed system
Monitoring in a distributed system poses several challenges. This blog post will teach you about many of them.
Monitoring: getting started
Ready to set up the Particular Service Platform for monitoring? This guide provides all the details.
Capture and visualize metrics in NewRelic
Using NewRelic for your application performance monitoring? This guide will show you how to integrate the metrics collected by NServiceBus endpoints with NewRelic.
Report metrics to Azure Application Insights
If you are using Azure Application Insights for your application performance monitoring, this guide will show you how to integrate the metrics collected by NServiceBus endpoints with Azure Application Insights.
Capture and visualize metrics in Prometheus-Grafana
Learn how to integrate the metrics collected by NServiceBus endpoints with Prometheus and Graphana.
Using ServiceControl Events
Learn how to add custom monitoring and operational logic to your system by leveraging the events emitted by ServiceControl.
Heartbeats
Learn how to set up heartbeats.
Custom Checks
Sometimes you need to go beyond the built-in ServiceControl plugins. Learn how to add your own custom checks to ServiceControl and view them in ServicePulse.

Recoverability
Your message processing failed, now what? Learn how to recover from failure in this article.
MSMQ troubleshooting
Having trouble with your MSMQ deployment? Here are some resolutions to common problems.
Azure Storage Queues performance tuning
If you feel your Azure Storage Queues transport is not performing well, read up on what can be done about it.
Management using PowerShell
Learn how to use PowerShell to automate the management of your system.

ServiceControl in practice
This guide shows you how to optimize ServiceControl for your environment.
ServiceControl capacity planning
This guide will help you plan the storage and throughput requirements for your ServiceControl installation in production.
Powering frontend apps with NServiceBus
In this video, you’ll learn how to scale out your frontend independently from your backend infrastructure.

Security
This guide shows how to apply encryption to message body and properties. It also provides guidance on other technology-specific security concerns.
GDPR Compliance
NServiceBus and the Service Platform collect information necessary to fulfill operations. Some of this information may need to be considered when evaluating your application for GDPR compliance. In this guide you will find all the details.
FIPS Compliance
Learn about support for FIPS, limitations and workarounds to become compliant.