Usage and Health Data Collection
Monitoring the status of your farm’s health is a critical aspect of SharePoint administration. This
service application collects the various logging information stored in SharePoint and writes it to the
logging database. This service application should always be created.
1. At the prompt, type the following and press Enter:
New-SPUsageApplication -Name "Usage and Health Data Collection"
2. At the prompt, type the following and press Enter:
$proxy = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | where {$_.TypeName -eq "Usage and
Health Data Collection Proxy"}
3. At the prompt, type the following and press Enter:
$proxy.Provision()
