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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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Understanding %DiskTime in Perfmon

I have a server that's been jumping around 100-700 %DiskTime for the past few days. I understand this indicates an I/O bottleneck -- but what do I do from here? What do I need to check or change in regards to the disk?
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Automating a collection of Perfmon counters

I have a specific setup I'm investigating to solve a specific need we have: I have a lab that consists of 3 machines, which runs load tests and oversees other investigations as needed. During the load tests, we have the load tests gather all…
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What is System Code Total Bytes

I am trying to use perfmon, and according to MSDN, the "System Code Total Bytes" counter ... Shows the size, in bytes, of pageable operating system code currently in virtual memory. It is a measure of the amount of physical memory being used by the…
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Monitor number of users logged into Windows XP with Nagios

I have a POS system that won't work unless the is logged in to the console session. I was thinking since I already have NSClient++ maybe I could monitor a counter via Nagios. Is there a counter for this that I can alert if the account is not…
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Monitoring "Request Wait Time" in PerfMon

A website I'm load testing is adding requests to the iis request queue. I can see the queue size getting bigger using the relevant performance counter: \ASP.NET\Requests Queued However I'm trying to see the "Request wait time" and I've added the…
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Using Perfmon on Windows Server 2008 R2 Which counter value should be used for physical memory usage?

I am attempting to use Performance Monitor to set up a relevant User Defined Dataset on a Windows 2008 R2 Server. This is to track the performance costs incurred by an application that my team is developing. One of the criteria I would like to…
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Escaping characters in Nagios for NC_Net

I'm trying to monitor an MSMQ queue counter using Nagios (3.0.1). The remote server is running NC_Net. The check_command config looks like this: check_command check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\MSMQ Queue(servername\\private$\\queuename)\\Messages in…
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How to work out the WMI Class name from its perfmon counter name

So I have been provided with a bunch of performance counters that are housed within a particular performance object (i.e. these are not one of the default perf counters that come with Windows) and because I need to access these statistics on a…
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Reading the output of perfmon

As per this answer, I've configured perfmon to show Memory / Pages Input/sec CPU / CPU Time (%) Physical Disk / Average Queue length (Names might be slightly different on an English version of Windows). Now I see these average values: Memory:…
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PerfMon counters have different Page File % Usage values for _Total and C:\pagefile.sys for SQL Server on VM

I am collecting PerfMon counters on a SQL Server 2008 server (which is hosted on a VM), and I am getting different Page File % Usage values for _Total and C:\pagefile.sys. The C:\pagefile.sys values are consistently at zero, and the _Total values…
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Running perfmon continuously with periodic reports

I have a question very similar to this one, but I want to continuously run perfmon, during reboots and throughout the day. Further, I'd like to generate a perfmon report every 10 mins or so. The original question tells me how to run perfmon when the…
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Why is ASP.NET not in the performance monitor?

I have a Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 server. It's virtual, not that that should make any difference. It's only purpose in life is running IIS 7 and it does that quite nicely. However, when I go to the performance monitor, there's not a choice…
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What could be cause of ASP.NET State Server timeout?

I recently migrated an app from SQL Server backed sessions to the ASP.NET State Server. About once a week there is a brief failure of ASP.NET to connect to the state server. These last from 20 seconds to 2 minutes. Unable to make the session state…
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Why are my perf counter logs disappearing after the scheduled run time?

I've setup a user defined data collector set in perfmon on Windows Server 2008 R2 Std. I have it set to run for 24hrs. When it is running, I can see the files it is creating in the output path. However, after the 24hrs are up, it stops collecting…
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description of perfmon counters?

I'd like to use typeperf or logman to process and/or log some basic system health information on a PC (running WinXP), but I can't find a description of common performance counters, just "typeperf -q" and I get a bunch of stuff that isn't really…
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