Displaying IIS Server Metrics

A significant problem has developed for me: how to let a user of as silverlight app know what is going on the web server running it? For example: How many users are on it? Is there a process hogging all the resources?  Does the app have enough bandwidth to run properly? Turns out IIS 7 does provide tools to query and serve up this information in real time!

http://www.iis.net/overview/control/powerfuladmintools

And one such feature is being able to use PowerShell to script the tools to provide the data you want.

http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/powershell

And on codeproject.com there was an article about putting real-time gauges on a web site,. This could be a great tool for displaying the data to users.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/604502/A-Universal-Gauge-for-Your-Web-Dashboard