Remote Perfmon Is Super Slow

Question

I'm trying to use perfmon to monitor some servers, but adding counters is excruciatingly slow. Each click freezes the window for tens of seconds. How can I speed this up?

Answer 1

Consider learning how to use powershell to automate performance counter work:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849685.aspx

You can use the Get-Counter -ListSet * -ComputerName MyRemoteComputer to list out all the counters on a remote computer. From there you can use Get-Counter to collect counter data remotely, and the Export-Counter cmdlet to export to log files suitable for review in perfmon.