Automatic restart of the Windows agent

Possible reasons for automatic restart of the Windows server monitoring agent

Site24x7 Agent Helper is a watcher service to monitor the performance of the Site24x7 Windows agent services to ensure that it does not affect the server performance. 

The Site24x7 Agent Helper will restart the Windows agent on the occurrence of even one of the below scenarios:
  • The CPU usage of the Windows agent is above 40% 
  • The memory usage of the Windows agent is above 50MB
  • The handle count of the agent is above 2500
  • There has been no data collection for the last 7 minutes 
  • No communication has happened for the last 7 minutes

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