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Monitor IIS 6.0

What good tools can I use to monitor IIS. What is included seems to be not as useful as I'd like. I realize I can add performance counters; those don't tell me very much; it's just a collections of properties that are plugged into a generic graphing tool.

I have problems with old legacy applications hanging and various and sundry other things. Also, when I need to get basic information like how many connections I have in IIS and their details I don't know what to do. I've googled extensively and I cannot find much. I find some log parsers, but I want real time. I found some commerical tools that don't really seem quite what I want, besides I'd like to find something free. This is very basic stuff that is pretty easy to get in Apache. I found IISTracer but I am a bit skeptical of it; I did install and try it out. Is there anything else? Some of these legacy applications are classic ASP so just a CLR Profiler isn't what I'm looking for, although those are handy.

EDIT: Is IISTracer really the only tool like this out there for IIS?

+1  A: 

Tools for Troubleshooting IIS 6.0

IIS Request Monitor (IIS 6.0)

One of the techniques for tracking down and mitigating problems with badly behaving sites is to use Application Pools. This article shows how to set one up.

It has also been mentioned here on SO:

Mitch Wheat
Yeah, that Request Monitor was the only thing that looked remotely promising on the first link. I'll google for awhile and see if I can find it or how to run it (no info on either page). But it's command line so I'm a little skeptical given how MS command line tools work. Thanks though.
JustAProgrammer
I really think there should be more tools than this. However, I did solve my problem using Process Monitor. This helped me find a problem with the .NET SMTP API that was causing issues. So, Ill just accept this answer.
JustAProgrammer