Health Monitors for Web Applications

Depends on your service. Try to test the actual function of the pool member service.

/Patrik

Lets say I have a web app which uses SOAP and the developer gives me a SOAP query I can use to detect if the app is working correctly. Surely I would use the SOAP monitor.

Is it as clear cut as that? Or is HTTP checking a dynamic web page just as good.

I am interested in people who use both methods and have experience with how reliable each method is.

The reliability depends on the application I guess. Checking a dynamic page would ensure that the web server is able to generate the content, while sending a Soap request actually tests a specific service.

If the main thing with the pool members is to serve SOAP requests I'd go for that one. You could also do both, but I generally recommend using one monitor whenever it's possible.

/Patrik