DNS Process Monitor Monitor

Operational States

Monitor State	Message	Priority	Severity	Auto Resolution
DNS Process Monitor Error (Warning)	The DNS process has exceeded the processor utilization threshold.	Medium	Warning	Yes

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Summary

DNS Process Monitor. The DNS process for Active Directory Domain Services Integrated DNS is consuming a lot of CPU resources.

If the overall CPU utilization on the server is too high, DNS requests may be delayed.

Causes

Possible causes include the following:

The domain controller needs resizing.
One or more other domain controllers failed, and their load transferred to this domain controller because it is now the closest available domain controller.
An application is placing a heavy load on the domain controller. This is usually caused by inefficient, CPU-intensive operations such as non-indexed queries.
The domain controller is critically low on memory.
The domain controller is under a denial-of-service attack.

Resolutions

View the overall system performance of the machine to determine if it needs additional resources.

Add additional domain controllers to help load-balance the load.

Ensure that there are a sufficient number of DCs hosting DNS.

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