eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SPOServiceTest

To ensure the high uptime and peak performance of SharePoint Online, administrators should be able to detect issues in the SharePoint Online service much before users complain. The SPOServiceTest test helps administrators with this! This test reports the status of the SharePoint Online service in real-time, thus proactively alerting administrators to a service degradation. The test additionally reveals if any service incidents are occurring, and elaborately describes such incidents vide detailed diagnostics. If SharePoint Online has been stopped as part of a planned maintenance activity, then this test indicates the same by reporting the count of maintenance events associated with SharePoint Online.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the monitored Office 365 tenant.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Service_Status Indicates the current health status of this service.   If the service is not experiencing any service incidents currently, then this measure will report the value Healthy. On the other hand, if even one service incident is occurring on the service, then this measure will report the value Service Degraded.

The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are discussed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Healthy 1
Service degraded 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate current health status of a service. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
Service_incidents Indicates the number of service incidents that are currently occurring on this service. Number Unplanned service incidents occur when SharePoint Online is unavailable or unresponsive.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the complete details of the service incidents.
Maintenance_events Indicates the number of maintenance events currently occurring on this service. Number Planned maintenance is regular Microsoft-initiated service updates to the infrastructure and software applications. Microsoft typically plans maintenance for times when service usage is historically at its lowest based on regional time zones.