BAM API

In BizTalk, BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) can be applied on pipeline and in orchestration. BizTalk also provide Tracking Profile Editor tool to implement BAM in BizTalk,  You can get info about tacking profile editor from here.

But this tracking tool has some limitation (for more info click here),  that’s why we need to move to apply BAM through programming. Here we are going to implement BAM in BizTalk through programming. Before going to coding we need to understand concept of BAM API, which is used in BAM Programming.

The BAM API defines four main classes:

• DirectEventStream (Synchronous, no latency): used in a .NET application to do a buffered write of data to BAM. Here data is persisted synchronously to the BAM Primary Import database. Except for DES, all other EventStream classes are asynchronous and have some latency. The data is first persisted to MessageBox and subsequently processed by TDDS which moves data into the BAMPrimaryImport database.
• BufferedEventStream (Asynchronous, high throughput, some latency): used in a .NET application to do an unbuffered write of data to BAM.
• OrchestrationEventStream (Asynchronous, participates in BizTalk orchestration transactions): used within an orchestration; Provides transactional consistency with the orchestration.
• MessagingEventStream (Asynchronous, participates in BizTalk Server pipeline transactions): used within a pipeline; Provides transactional consistency with the messaging engine.

All of these classes are derived from the base class EventStream.

Note:

For BizTalk OrchestrationEventStream (For Orchestrations) and MessagingEventStream (For Pipelines) are applicable and other two event streams are applicable for non-Biztalk e.g. WCF and WF. Link is below for how to apply BAM through BAM API in BizTalk Pipeline and Orchestration.

Click here to apply BAM in Pipeline

Click here to apply BAM in Orchestration

The EventStream APIs for BAM reside in the Microsoft.BizTalk.BAM.EventObservation namespace. To code against the APIs, you must add the following DLLs to your project reference and include the namespace in your code with the following using statement:

using Microsoft.BizTalk.Bam.EventObservation;

• BizTalk.BAM.EventObservation.dll (Available at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 R2\Tracking)
• Biztalk.BAM.Xlangs.dll (Available at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 R2\Tracking): This DLL is required when coding for Orchestration event streams.
• BizTalk.Pipeline.dll (Available at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 R2): This DLL required when using coding pipeline contexts for Messaging event streams.