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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How to aggregate data in Windows Performance Monitor?
I have seem performance counters like this:
PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Avg. Disk Read Queue Length
Which is an aggregation (average, sum, etc) of data over a period.
How to create a custom counter which is an aggregation of existent data of another…
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How to query custom performance counters using Zabbix agent?
I was thinking of instead sending data to Zabbix Trapper I could send to Windows Performance monitor and then capture it using Zabbix Agent. Is it possible? How?
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How to add remoter computer into perfmon.msc?
I want to add remote computer performance snap into local computer perfmon.msc.
Please help me out and provide step by step method.
Thanks
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how to set up Windows Server 2008 perfmon alert
in Windows 2008, how can I set up perfmon alerts to execute some scheduled task or batch file? I found examples for Windows 2003, but not 2008.
for example, I want to execute a task if free space on C drive goes below 10%. how would I do that?
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Trigger task after DataCollection with perfmon
In performance Monitor, I'm looking for a way to compress my data collection (*.blg file) when the collection has reached the stop condition.
Looking at the "Data Collector Sets" properties there this task tab which seems to perfectly fit my needs,…
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Can Perfmon be configured to survive a hard-reset or flush reports on the go?
I am having trouble configuring perfmon here (Windows Server 2016 if it's relevant). My situation: our server recently get random hit and we are diagnosing the problem, so I put a Data Collector Set. What we want: Memory usage data every 30…
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Getting acurate time-derived bytes per second counter from Windows perfmon counters
On Linux, I'm used to having /proc/diskstats, which has counters with the total number of bytes read/written. You can mathematically derive those over time (in Influx DB, rrdtool, etc) to obtain an accurate throughput rate. Is there no such thing on…
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ideas needed - cut the smb connection when disk full
Hello sometimes we are having issues like when some misbehaving user copies files to a server via admin share or other share and he causes disk drive to fill and a p1 ticket be created by monitoring. I am thinking about ways to prevent this. I am…
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PerfMon within a VMware 6.5 VM in 2017: Accurate?
Looking to measure the performance of a VM over a two-week period, which means the Performance tab in vSphere client/UI is not really feasible.
esxitop appears to only track the host, not a particular VM, although not sure if there's a method of…
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Is there a way to create a Windows perfmon data collector based on process name?
Always Log CPU Usage for an Application "Name"
During some phase of testing, I'd like to always monitor the CPU usage of my application. The application has a fixed name.
I don't see a way in the GUI tools to accomplish this, since the Process class…
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Recommended Perfmon counters to measure web server performance
Hi there are lots of resources in general about this question (I found this useful https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2008.08.pulse.aspx). However I would like some more specific suggestions.
I'm a developer and I'm not a sys-admin, but my…
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How to monitor physical disk instance writeload on windows server ? Only _Total is working
I'm trying to measure the writeload of 2 RAID volumes using the provided instance performance counters. Hence only the "_total" marked ones create performance data, the instance counters do not. I can see the Physical Disk instances with the…
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Perfmon remote connection failing between two w7 pc's
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate and trying to connect to the perfmon service of another (local network) w7 box. We have windows firewall turned off, the appropriate users added to the Performance Log Users, Administrators and (just in case)…
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No permission to access SQL server perfmon counters
My DBA team doesn't have access to SQL server 2005 standard performance counters.
What is the required permission that they should be granted? I found some registry entries, but they already have permissions there. they're not OS administrators.
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How to automatically start the perfmon on SQL Server cluster active node
How can we start running perfmon automatically on active SQL Server active node? Typically when we failover to the inactive node and we forgot to run the perfmon. We want to start running the perfmom automatically if possible. If not how can we…
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