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# Operating Applications

This section covers the operational aspects of running Talon applications in production, organized into four key areas: Deployment, Administration, Monitoring, and Analysis & Troubleshooting.

## Overview

Operating Talon applications involves:

* **Administration**: Service launch, shutdown, and command-and-control operations
* **Monitoring**: Receiving and viewing service telemetry (statistics)
* **Deployment**: Preparing the environment a service starts in
* **Analysis & Troubleshooting**: Logging and tools for analyzing logs and telemetry

## Operational Components

### [Administration](/talon/operating-applications/administration.md)

Tools and techniques for managing Talon services:

* [**Admin Tool**](/talon/operating-applications/administration/admin-tool.md) - Command-line administrative interface
* [**Admin Over SMA**](/talon/operating-applications/administration/admin-over-sma.md) - Remote administration via messaging

### [Monitoring](/talon/operating-applications/monitoring.md)

Real-time telemetry and statistics collection:

* [**XVM Heartbeats**](/talon/operating-applications/monitoring/xvm-heartbeats.md) - Server-level statistics and health monitoring
* [**Engine Stats**](/talon/operating-applications/monitoring/engine-statistics.md) - Message processing and engine metrics
* [**Per Transaction Stats**](/talon/operating-applications/monitoring/per-transaction-statistics.md) - Transaction-level performance metrics

### [Deployment](/talon/operating-applications/deployment.md)

Preparing the environment a service starts in:

* [**Native Libraries**](/talon/operating-applications/deployment/native-libraries.md) - Extraction of the platform's bundled native libraries

### [Analysis & Troubleshooting](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting.md)

Logging and analysis tools for troubleshooting:

* [**Trace Logging**](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting/trace-logging.md) - Enable and configure trace logging
* [**The Transaction Log Tool**](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting/tools/transaction-log-tool.md) - Work with transaction logs
* [**Querying Transaction Logs**](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting/querying-transaction-logs.md) - Query binary transaction logs
* [**Stats Dump Tool**](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting/tools/stats-dump-tool.md) - Offline analysis of heartbeat logs

## Related Topics

* [Operating Model](/talon/concepts-and-architecture/operating-model.md) - Conceptual overview of operating Talon applications
* [Configuring Monitoring](/talon/developing-applications/configuring-the-runtime/monitoring.md) - How to configure statistics

## Next Steps

1. Start with [Administration](/talon/operating-applications/administration.md) to learn how to manage running applications
2. Configure [Monitoring](/talon/operating-applications/monitoring.md) to collect statistics and health metrics
3. Set up [Trace Logging](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting/trace-logging.md) for troubleshooting