Questions tagged [perfmon]
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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Is it OK to run perfmon on production servers? And why?
Or should perfmon be limited to a Dev/QA server with load tests that simulate production activity?
I'd like to run perfmon for two days (like Sql Server master Brent Ozar suggests) to get an overall ...
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Real time monitoring of MS Windows servers and their services
We have a bunch of large HDTVs in our monitoring office keeping an eye on all of our production equipment.
We are monitoring:
Cisco routers
HP switches
HP proliant servers
Windows 2003
IIS
SQL ...
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How can a Perfmon "% Processor Time" counter be over 100%?
The counter, Process(sqlservr)\% Processor Time, is hovering around 300% on one of my database servers. This counter reflects the percent of total time SQL Server spent running on CPU (user mode + ...
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Perfmon - Cannot start data collector set
While running perfmon on Windows 2008 server after creating a data collector set and attempting to start I receive the following error:
"The Data Collector Set or one of its dependencies is already ...
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Is there an automated way of collating data from Perfmon?
I've been manually collating Perfmon data (e.g., getting screen caps of the perfmon graph to get the average, min, max values) of statistics like % processor usage, % committed bytes in memory, etc in ...
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Easiest way to get Perfmon counter names into a text file?
I'd like to create a settings file for my logman command. I expect to have lots of perfmon counters.
Is there any easy way to get all the perfmon counters' exact text anywhere?
The only thing I ...
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How to save a perfmon Performance Counter as a textfile (Reliability and Performance Monitor Version 6.0)
Now the file gets saved as blg, but I would like a txt version to import in Excel.
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Total RAM % from perfmon Windows Server 2008 R2
I am trying to find a good way to get available RAM percentage from perfmon. I can get Available Mbytes but I can't find any way to get the total installed memory on the server or what is in use via ...
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Windows "iowait" CPU utilization reporting
Does Windows account for and report "iowait" in the same manner as Linux? That is, processes enter "uninterruptible sleep" and their time spent is subtracted from "CPU free"?
If so, which Perfmon ...
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Connecting to Remote Server Using Performance Monitor Does Not Work
I'm having a problem when attempting to perform a PerfMon trace on a remote server. The server is Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The reason for performing this trace is that SQL Server seems to be ...
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Why can't I connect on port 445?
I need to collect baseline performance data on a SQL Server running on Windows Server 2008 R2. When I open perfmon on my computer running Windows 7 and try to add counters from the remote server, I ...
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Is it safe to leave System Performance Data Collector Set running
I have created a user defined data collector set from the system performance template. I've made no changes to the counters. I can run it manually and it works fine but runs for 1 only minute. Yes, I ...
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Use perfmon to monitor a specific ASP.NET webapp across worker process restarts, IIS restarts, etc.?
I have a few perfmon performance counters that I'd like to track for a specific ASP.NET application over an extended period of time, say a week or a month. The trouble is that perfmon counters are ...
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Use PerfMon to connect to a Remote Computer
I want to use PerfMon to connect to a Remote Computer. What ports do I need to have open in my Firewall to be able to connect?
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Find the bottleneck: disk I/O on Windows XP
One of our development boxes has developed a problem wherein performance will occasionally drop through the floor. When this happens, you can hear the hard drive thrashing, but I don't know what's ...
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Perfmon: which counter identifies that threads are waiting?
While load testing an ASP.NET app, we find that the pages are taking 20-30 sec under heavy load.
We suspect this is because the pages are waiting for database calls or web services.
Is there a ...
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How can I investigate sustained high CPU usage by Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.ClientAccess.Service.exe?
One CAS server in our array has nearly 90% of its 4 CPUs used. The remaining CAS servers are at 30 percent.
How should I investigate what is causing this increase?
Below is a graph of:
Six (6) ...
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Estimate IOPS for an Amazon EBS volume using Windows PerfMon
I'm evaluating moving our aging infrastructure to Amazon's AWS and am trying to estimate costs. I know our current disk space requirements, bandwidth, and most of the other variables that will affect ...
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Real-time IIS monitoring
We're looking for some monitoring software that will report and display real-time performance information for IIS. We're currently using perfmon to monitor requests executing, requests queued, etc...,...
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How do I add a counter for process data in perfmon.exe for a process that isn't currently running?
I would like to perform an ad hoc capture of data using perfmon.exe for a process that runs during the night.
I know the name of the executable--lets call it Foo.exe.
If the process were currently ...
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Windows Performance Monitor fails to record <All Instances> of selected Process counters, and just records _Total
I'm attempting to configure a DataCollector set of counters, and would like to (and do) select Process\% Processor Time\<All instances>. However, the resultant perfmon data counter collected is ...
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When does a database data file get written to?
I was using perfmon to monitor writes per second on a LUN containing a single SQL2005 database data file. I was under the assumption that database files are only written to during checkpoints or by ...
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Perfmon disk counters vs. a SAN
I'm not a storage guy. I know how to spell SAN and a few basics beyond that, but not much farther.
Are std disk counters reliable in measuring against SAN storage? We have 2 MS SQL (2005) servers ...
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Performance Counters in Perfmon/Server 2008 R2
I am trying to setup perfmon on a Windows 2008 R2 server to monitor memory usage on a server for 1 week. I have never used perfmon before, but some basic tutorials explained how to pick between ...
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Monitor Windows 7 Performance Counters from Server 2012
I want to monitor performance counters on my Windows 7 Machines from Windows Server 2012.
Right now, I have two Windows 7 machines that can monitor each other's performance counters no problem. To ...
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Permissions Issue with Files Generated by PerfMon
We are trying to implement some data logging to CSV files using a Data Collector Set in PerfMon (on a windows Server 2008R2 system).
The issue we are running into is that we (seemingly) can't control ...
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Reporting tool for Performance Monitor
I am looking for an application I can use to consume performance monitor logs and report on them. Is there an application you have good success with to display the metrics you have captured with ...
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Monitoring services using perfmon
Struggling to find the counters to get the status of a service using perfmon. Is it even possible? We need to monitor the status of a service in Nagios but the only remote access avaliable is through ...
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Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 w3wp PerfMon monitoring
We have a number of web applications set up as Virtual Directories under one web site on Windows 2003/IIS 6.0 servers. Each VirDir has a dedicated App Pool. One of my users wanted to know if I could ...
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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)
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Automatically start Windows Server 2003 Perfmon counter log upon reboot
Trying to figure out how to make sure a specific Windows Perfmon Counter Log resumes logging automatically when the server is rebooted.
This is a Windows 2003 Server, so likely won't have anyone ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Perfmon % Processor Time vs. task manager's CPU usage
I'm new to using Perfmon and performance monitoring in general (so go easy on me please ;)
I know that Perfmon doesn't have anything exactly like Task Manager's CPU usage display, but I'm trying to ...
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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 (...
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How do I run perfmon against a remote machine?
For starters I'm trying to do this from a Windows 7 box to a Windows 7 box.
I know the simple answer should be to enter \\computername where it says "Select Counters From Computer". Trouble is, every ...
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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, ...
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How to monitor performance of servers on a different domain using Perfmon in Windows 7
We just upgraded our developer machines from 32 bit Windows XP to 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. With Windows XP we were able to do a live monitor of the CPU usage of servers that resided on a separate ...
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Performance monitor logs are not getting generated on windows Server 2008 R2
On Windows Server 2008 R2 and windows Server 2012 Standard machines:
I have added the Data Collector set in Performance monitor.
I scheduled it for 4 hours
Seems that the task is being started as ...
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Task Manager Processor %
Related to this question: How can a Perfmon "% Processor Time" counter be over 100%?
I was manually observing processes in Task Manager when a user reported a problem and the Oracle process ...
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Windows equivalent performance counters in Linux with Sysstat (or similar)
I administer a range of both Windows and Linux servers. On the Windows servers, I have the following performance counters logging every 15 seconds to a CSV file:
Bottleneck analysis:
Processor Queue ...
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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 ...
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Performance monitor visualization tool [closed]
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)...
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Unable to open the Performance Logs and Alerts configuration
I'm trying to set up some perfmon logging on our server and I get this message in the event log
"Unable to open the Performance Logs and Alerts configuration. This configuration is initialized when ...
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Why aren't custom performance counters being recorded by my PerfMon data collector set?
I have six custom performance counters that were created by a .NET app. When I open Performance Monitor and add them to the live view, those counters are displayed correctly. I can see the values I ...
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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:
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Different Process Names in PerfMon for the same PID
I am trying to confirm a behavior I am seeing or am looking for help in identifying my problem.
When using Performance Monitor to collect data on multiple instances of the same process, the same ...
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Perfmon counters are not restarted after reboot
The question has a long history, and I went through all previous questions (1, 2) but neither of them answers the question why the standard way doesn't work? If I don't want to use logman how can I ...
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ASP.NET Performance Counters Temporarily Drop To Zero
Having some performance issues with a VM Image (I do not have access to the VM Host, only the guest OS).
Trying to determine why there are periods of time ranging from 10-60 seconds where the server ...
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Resource Monitor not showing expected disk read activity
Hi I have the following query.
I am running a meteor web server on a windows 2008 R2 VM machine.
Am trying to run a performance test on the web server.
I have an automated script to access a folder ...