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What is the (*) in Windows Performance Counters
Take the following counter for example:
\LogicalDisk(*)\% Free Space
Where can I find what can be plugged in place of the *?
I know sometimes it's _global_ and other times it can be _total_. I ...
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Hyper-V Performance Monitoring
Background
I am very new to the world of server-based virtualization (I've been running VM's on my desktops for years).
The organization I work for has recently purchased a Dell server that will be ...
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which performance counters mainly matter for windows server performance?
We have a website which is sometimes performing slowly, and / or completely hangs. I have setted up temporarily the default system performance data collector in Performance Monitor, to see if this ...
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Linux user permissions setup for monitoring tool
We have external monitoring tool which will access our linux machines through SSH and will read top/ping/netstat/disk activity. As i am creating separated ssh key and separated user for this purpose i ...
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Live access logging for many nginx websites
I'm running a couple of dozen sites on a server for a client. This number moves around pretty fluidly as they test ideas and we have a flexible configuration to host things.
The problem comes in that ...
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Tools to measure production web server load? [closed]
I see plenty of tools to stress test a web site, I'm curious how loaded our web servers really are. How many queries can IIS 7.5 handle on Windows Server 2008 R2 - how close am I to maxing out a ...
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Before buying it, how can I tell if a storage array makes certain performance counters available over SNMP?
I've noticed that documentation for SNMP reporting that is built-in to devices (i.e. doesn't need an agent running in an OS) usually doesn't include a list of performance counters that are available ...
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Active Sessions Performance Counter for Web Server
I would like to monitor the number of active sessions for my ASP.Net 4.0. It is hosted on IIS7 Windows 2008 Server.
When I looked at the Performance counter, I saw many instances. How could I know ...
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How to customize Windows “Performance Monitor”?
I'm wondering if that's possible to set a customized action counter that is not listed as one of the counters? e.g. a batch script that measure a time for running my application, and then notify the ...
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SNMP: Calculating max. number of agents for polling [closed]
I'm doing some reading on SNMP and have Stallings' book "SNMP, SNMPv2 and RMON" (1996).
He shows how by using some basic math you are able to "determine the maximum number of stations that the ...
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How to graph the web server load by using the nginx logs with response time?
I want to analyse if certain type of requests do have an important impact on the server.
My backend service is behind nginx which logs all requests including the time needed to get the response.
Now ...
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Any way to get munin plugin output to dstat?
The two tools are great with plugins and many available out of the box metrics.
I was wondering if there is a way to get output of munin into dstat or a similar tool (real time output vs munin's ...
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In Windows 7, why can't I use perfmon against a remote server?
I am on Windows 7 and trying to run perfmon against Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. I am running into the same issue with all remote machines.
When creating a data collector set, I specify a ...
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How can I test my server response time? [closed]
I'd like to test my server response time and how fast my website loads. How can I do it?
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Server processes stall for a few seconds, how can we find the issue?
We have a fairly large VPS running our custom server code (not web servers but game servers), at random times the server seems to stall for a few seconds, how can we track the down the thread / ...
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How can I replicate performance counter setups in an Azure WorkerRole?
I am trying to collect performance statistics on our Azure application. Up till now, our process has been to set up the roles with RDP enabled, connect, manually set up the performance counters, log ...
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server busy threshold? [closed]
i have a server with 512MB RAM running mysql and apache service. I have joomla site inside my server.
I want to ask,
is there a brief threshold limit of RAM when the server will be stated
as busy? ...
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Guide to Apache performance monitoring and capacity planning? [closed]
Can someone point me at a guide on performance monitoring and capacity management of an Apache web farm? Other questions suggest some tools, but I'm also interested in understanding what the various ...
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Perfmon counters for monitoring general IIS/MSSQL server activity
I have a virtual server with a hosting company so CPU and RAM are limited. I need to watch load/performance over time to know when to upgrade the server.
The site runs multiple ASP.NET apps as well ...
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Top shows md127_raid1 with high CPU load?
I have a new server, when I use "top" to see busy processes I usually see
md127_raid1
either at the top or close to the top
What is this process doing? How can I easily verify that the raid is ...
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Recommendations on monitoring system(s) [closed]
Was hoping you might have insight into this. I am looking at different monitoring options.
My goals:
Cover the main bases (see items I need monitored below)
Multiple layers (high level, pretty ...
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View the performance counters I have added to a Data Collector set after creation on Windows Server 2008 R2
I have been working on creating a Data Collector Set to use to collect relevant performance information for an application my team is developing. I am using Performance Monitor on a Windows 2008 R2 ...
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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 ...
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Relog from CSV failing
I'm trying to use relog to load the csv output of a perfmon run into a SQL database, but it keeps on failing. The error I get is:"A required argument is missing or incorrect".
I'm using the method ...
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How does CPU consumption look like from a VM on a heavily use VM Host?
I know I could test this, but I don't have the time right now to setup pristine test conditions to learn something that should be in documented form - and that I cannot find in an authoritative form.
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How to tell a Performance Monitor Data Collector Set to regularly generate Reports?
In a nutshell, my goal is to do a long-time recording of several performance counters.
My steps I took until now were:
Some days ago I've created several user-defined Data Collector Sets in Windows ...
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How do I determine the number of seeks performed on Linux?
I have two programs that write to my servers disk.
One I wrote, it does linear writes, it's writing data quickly. Another I'm benchmarking, it's writing data at a 3rd of the speed. It doesn't do much ...
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ASP.NET Applications WMI class not found
I'm trying to instrument ASP.NET cache behavior on a web cluster by accessing the counters in the WMI class, Win32_PerfFormattedData_ASPNET_ASPNETApplications. 2 of my servers have this class, but 1 ...
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High response time with pingdom
I have a server hosted at my end, I am monitoring the server with pingdom and also my router. Strange thing is the response time towards the router is fine, but when the traffic flows towards the ...
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What's difference between monitoring, tracing and profiling?
I have seen these three words showing up a lot, but don't understand the exact differences between them. For example, collecting CPU utilisation is often called profiling and can also fall into ...
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save Performance Monitor settings
I have added several counters to Window 2008 Performance Monitor to monitor web application. When I restart server or close Server Manager console I loose all added monitor. I do not see a way to save ...
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What is the best way to Baseline / Benchmark Physical and virtual server performance? [closed]
I am setting up a new server and there are some options.
I want to perform some benchmarks and I need your help in determining the best tools and if possible run pre-configured benchmarks designed for ...
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Debugging I/O issues on a linux server
What are some ways to debug I/O issues on a linux server?
I've been using:
# nohup top -b -d 10 > /var/log/top.log &
# nohup iotop -b -d 5 -o -t > /var/log/iotop.log &
PS: hardware ...
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Squid 3 monitoring tool
Have a Squid 3 proxy setup with a Round Robin load balancing.
When running for a couple of day's it will get unstable and need's to be restarted. I wan't to solve this and be able to monitor where ...
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Live monitoring on web server logs by tailing the webserver access log
I am looking for a way to find who causes high load on my nginx web server but I do have too many requests per minutes to figure it out which one is the real cause.
I want a solution that would work ...
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Network bandwidth usage per process Windows Server 2003
Is there freely available analog from Microsoft to monitor network bandwidth usage per process on Windows Server 2003 as this is implemented with Resource Monitor on W2k8?
What I need to know is how ...
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Ressourcemonitor Windows Server 2008 R2
Got a question about monitoring a process with the ressource monitor.
I want to monitor the cpu usage and the memory usage of a process. Also I want to monitor the total cpu usage. But there are a ...
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OpenTSDB metrics using data from sar, vmstat and iostat logs
I recently started exploring OpenTSDB for monitoring a cluster that we have in our development environment. As a newbie, I have not delved deep into it, but was wondering if anyone successfully used ...
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Huge CS value in #vmstat - what does it mean?
Here is the output for #vmstat for my VPS (Parallels virtualization):
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
r b swpd free buff cache si so ...
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What does this blktrace output mean?
I run blktrace and get lines like the following:
8,0 0 4 0.000016614 783 P N [kjournald]
What does the N stand for? The field it's in is supposed to indicate read or write ...
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How to assess high value of “\TCPv4\Connections Reset” counter?
My Windows Azure web role consists of four "small" instances. The role has been deployed for four days and has served something like 50-100 thousand HTTP requests.
Now I'm reviewing performance ...
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Perfmon data into SQL
Sorry for the wall of text below.
At my workplace we have quite a few Exchange servers and supporting Domain Controllers, all currently being monitored by SCOM. I've setup certain monitoring elements ...
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How can I get a windows server to collate and email 4 daily reports/graphs for server performance
I run a windows 2008 webserver and would like to setup the most basic performance monitoring in the world.
What i would like is:
a plot of ASP.Net request time for each w3wp process for a 24hour ...
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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 ...
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Using Performance Monitor To Get IIS7 Response Turnaround Time
I have a MVC2 web application on W2KR2/IIS7 that I'd like to benchmark/monitor. Some XHR requests by a browser-based client are suddenly taking 8-10 sec when they used to take much less time (as per ...
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Chef / performance data
I am looking into making performance data like page response time integrated with Chef. Does anyone has a clue what would be the starting point?
I have already deployed Chef, I have enabled ...
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Restore Perfmon Action/View Menus after hiding?
In Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, Service Pack 2:
Start > Run... > perfmon
Select menu View > Customize...
Uncheck option "Standard menus (Action and View)"
Select button "OK"
How ...
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why dstat failed with --tcp option?
why --tcp option failed?
should i install some package? if yes, which package i should install?
this question is not the same as ...
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How to find virtualization performance bottlenecks?
We have recently started moving our C++ build server(s) from real machines into VMs. (MS Hyper-V)
We have some performance issues that I've currently no idea how to address. We have:
Test-Box - ...
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Ubuntu program RAM and CPU OID
Running on Ubuntu.
I need to monitor my program CPU and RAM , my prefer way is to monitor by SNMP.
Does someone know the OID for program CPU and RAM(not total)?
If there isnt so what is the simple ...
