Reliability Monitor in Windows 8

Reliability Monitor

The Reliability Monitor reviews the computer’s reliability and problem history. You can use the Reliability Monitor to obtain several kinds of reports and charts that can help you identify the source of reliability issues.

System Stability Chart

This summarizes system stability, for the past year, in daily increments. This chart indicates any information, error, or warning messages, and simplifies the task of identifying issues and the date on which they occurred.

Installation and Failure Reports

The System Stability Report also provides information about each event in the chart. These reports include the following events:

Problems Records Key Events in a Timeline

The Reliability Monitor tracks key events about the system configuration, such as the installation of new applications, operating system patches, and drivers. It also tracks the following events, and helps you identify the reasons for reliability issues:

The Reliability Monitor is a useful tool that provides a timeline of system changes, and then reports the system’s reliability. You can use this timeline to determine whether a particular system change correlates with the start of system instability.

Problems Reports and Solutions Tool

The Problem Reports and Solutions tool in Reliability Monitor helps you track problem reports and any solution information that other tools have provided. This tool only helps store information. Windows Error Reporting Services handles all Internet communication related to problem reports and solutions. The Problem Report and Solution Tool provides a list of the attempts made to diagnose your computer’s problems.

If an error occurs while an application is running, Windows Error Reporting Services prompts the user to select whether to send error information to Microsoft over the Internet. If information is available that can help the user resolve this problem, Windows displays a message to the user with a link to information about how to resolve the issue.

You can use the Problem Reports and Solutions tools to track resolving information and to recheck and find new solutions. You can start the Problem Reports and Solutions tools from the Reliability Monitor. The following tools are available: