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title: PingFederate Monitoring Guide
description: PingFederate provides a range of monitoring options, from simple heartbeat options for checking responsiveness to transaction response-time logging and resource-utilization metrics.
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revdate: July 5, 2022
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# PingFederate Monitoring Guide

PingFederate provides a range of monitoring options, from simple heartbeat options for checking responsiveness to transaction response-time logging and resource-utilization metrics.

To help you gain insight into the health and performance of your PingFederate deployment, this guide provides the following information:

* [Liveliness and responsiveness](pf_liveliness_responsiveness.html) describes the heartbeat request endpoint and audit logs

* [Resource metrics](pf_resource_metrics.html) describes mechanisms for obtaining resource metrics including JMX

* [Monitoring](pf_monitoring.html) describes the key JVM performance metrics for evaluating the performance of PingFederate deployments

* [Thread pool](pf_thread_pool.html) describes the MBeans tab and the recommended number of threads in the pool

* [Logging, reporting, and troubleshooting](pf_logging_reporting_troubleshooting.html) describes the available logging, reporting, and troubleshooting features