# Server Statistics

The TIBCO Enterprise Message Service server allows you to track incoming and outgoing message volume, message size, and message statistics for the server overall as well as for each producer, consumer, or route. You can configure the type of statistics collected, the interval for computing averages, and amount of detail for each type.

Statistic tracking can be set in the server’s configuration file, or you can change the configuration dynamically using commands in the administration tool or by creating your own application with the administration APIs.

Statistics can be viewed using the administration tool, or you can create your own application that performs more advanced analysis of statistics using the administration APIs.

This section details how to configure and view statistics using the configuration files and administration tool commands. For more information about the administration APIs, see the description of `com.tibco.tibjms.admin` in the online documentation.

Note: The TIBCO Enterprise Message Service server tracks the number of incoming or outgoing messages, but only messages sent or received by a producer, consumer, or route are tracked. The server also sends system messages, but these are not included in the number of messages.

However, the server can add a small amount of data to a message for internal use by the server. This overhead is counted in the total message size, and you may notice that some messages have a greater message size than expected.

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