Filtering Diagnostics Performance Counters

Question

I have this simple Performance Counter setup. The thing is that this Performance Counter is completely useless. It measures CPU usage percentage for a time span of 60 Seconds and logs the number. What I need to do is to somehow make it filter the data so that it only logs the numbers whit high CPU utilization, like 80%+. I don't want to inflate the log with garbage data.

diagnosticMonitorConfiguration.PerformanceCounters.ScheduledTransferPeriod = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2D);
diagnosticMonitorConfiguration.PerformanceCounters.BufferQuotaInMB = 10;
TimeSpan perfSampleRate = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60D);

 diagnosticMonitorConfiguration.PerformanceCounters.DataSources.Add(new PerformanceCounterConfiguration()
{
    CounterSpecifier = @"\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time",
    SampleRate = perfSampleRate
});

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 07 '12 at 01:20

What you are requesting is not really possible. You can transfer CPU values into the table as often as once per minute per instance. But you will want to use a custom query against the WADPerformanceCountersTable in order to get values that are only over a certain threshold.

What are you trying to do? End goal?

Filtering Diagnostics Performance Counters

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