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Performance Monitor is a program to monitor and log system performance on Microsoft Windows. From command-line invocation it is also known as PerfMon, perfmon, perfmon.exe and perfmon.msc, and in some versions of Windows it is known as System Monitor.

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Performance monitoring on Linux/Unix

I run a few Windows servers and (Debian and Ubuntu) Linux and AIX servers. I would like to continously monitor performance on these systems in order to easily identify bottlenecks as well as to have an overview of the general activity on the…
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Create alert notification system for performance counters (logman, task scheduler, events)

I have a Windows Server 2008 SP2 without a graphical user interface (Windows Azure). I need to setup an alert for performance counters that reaches some threshold and then run some command (send an alert, email, something). So far I did find a way…
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Using perfmon, which counters should I pay particular attention to when debugging ASP.NET and SQL performance problems?

Related Perfmon: which counter identifies that threads are waiting? but sadly abandoned by the asker Using perfmon, which counters should I pay particular attention to when debugging ASP.NET and SQL performance problems? Some system stats in case…
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Automatically restarting Perfmon Data Collector Sets

I have a number of User Defined Data Collector Sets running on a Windows 2008R2 server, collecting perfmon stats from various servers. Whenever there is a network interruption, or a server rebooted (at worst, when the server which is running all…
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How to Setup Perfmon to Automaticaly Start an "Alert" At System Startup?

I have an "Alert" setup in perfmon, but it gives me only two options to start it: Manualy At an specified time (schedule) So... How to Setup Perfmon to Automaticaly Start an "Alert" At System Startup? I know I can type "logman start {alert-name}"…
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PerfMon Counters Not Available

Unless I'm going crazy here, I'm having a problem trying to load some basic counters from one of our older Windows 2003 SP2. Let's take Page Faults/sec as an example - when I try to add the counter, it is no where to be found, especially under the…
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Why can't Logman start?

I'm setting up my first logman counter. But it's not working! There is some file or folder permissions problem. Or maybe I wrote the create-counter statement wrong. Here's my counter commands: logman create counter BillTest -si 30 -v nnnnnn -max…
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Performance monitor visualization tool

I'm looking for a tool to display data from performance monitor counters. I'm looking for something that would be visually appealing (look like a dashboard) and it should be able to aggregate (sum up) over multiple counters. No thresholds/alarming…
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Disk or Network Bottleneck and Perfmon?

I'm trying to see if we're choking our NAS server with RAID 5 on a PERC RAID card. I've been playing with Perfmon and have been looking at various ways to try narrowing down the performance counting but am hitting things like, for example, finding…
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Performance Monitor connect to server on a different domain

I've been using PerfMon to monitor some SQL Server Stats for a while but we recently moved our production SQL Server to a different domain and I'm having trouble setting this back up. When I try to add the counters in it recognises it but then when…
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How to trace multiple providers with xperf

Xperf only lets you run one kernel session. The syntax for creating a kernel session for one provider is xperf -start MySession -on 2DA81B52-908E-7DB6-EF81-76856BB47C4F However, I cannot seem to specify multiple providers. The following does not…
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Windows perfmon high C3 Time and high C3 Transitions/sec a concern?

I have servers that are running applications and are mostly idle (60-70% idle cpu). They also show a very high number of C3 Transitions/sec (2.5-3.5k/sec per core) as well as high C3 times (58%+ in _Total) C3 Time is supposedly low power state.…
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Can Perfmon be used to monitor free space on a (mounted) SMB share?

Is there a way to use Windows Perfmon to monitor available space on a (mounted) SMB share? For example: on server ABC, I'd have a share \\DEF\SharedFiles mounted. As I can't set up any monitoring on server DEF, I'd like to use Perfmon to watch the…
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Poolmon Nonp total bytes not equal to Perfmon Memory > Nonpaged Pool Bytes

We are monitoring a server for a potential Nonpaged Pool memory leak. So we setup a cmd batch file to output to the Nonpaged Pool allocation every 10 mins. We also setup a perfmon counter log to capture Memory > Nonpaged Pool Bytes. As well as an…
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How can I use perfmon/logman to set up logging on a master (Windows) VM, writing to another machine on the network?

I know how to set up logging to write to a remote location in the general case - just specify the output filename using the full UNC path (e.g. \\HOST-PC\directory\logoutput.etl) when creating the log job. However, a problem arises when new Virtual…
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