IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Measuring and improving business processes > Monitoring > Service component monitoring overview

Why use monitoring?

You monitor service components within IBM BPM to assess performance, to troubleshoot problems, and to evaluate the overall processing progress of service components that make up the applications deployed on your system.

Service components are the integral functions incorporated into IBM BPM, with which you can create and deploy applications on your system that mirror the processes employed in your enterprise. Effectively monitoring those service components is, therefore, essential to managing the tasks that the server is intended to accomplish. There are three main reasons you need to monitor service components on the server: