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A new whitepaper has been published on MSDN:

Analyzing SharePoint Usage

This whitepaper covers in detail the process of using LogParser to deeply analyse the logs produced by SharePoint.

Some of the topics covered include:

• Using LogParser
• Counting users
• User type distribution
• Requests (RPS) distribution over time
• Distinct users over time
• User agent distribution
• Slow pages
• Offlice web service usage

A lot of this information applies to any web application, not just SharePoint sites.

MSDN has a new white paper:

Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices

It covers topics such as:

• Database Autogrowth
• Storage settings for the recycle bin
• Using Quota templates
• List performance
• Physical Topology Guidance
• Disk and SAN interfaces
• Network Topology recommendations
• Physical Storage recommendations
• Separating database data files
• Monitoring, Maintaining, and Troubleshooting (which provides some great performance counters that can be used for monitoring)
• Disk and SQL recommended practices

In all it is a great resource. The direct download is here.