Perfmon in windows 2008

Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Hello, I had setup some counters to monitor our application performance and was trying to log it into a csv based log file. When I started the data collector set, it captured some of the counters in the file but left out some.

Appreciate any inputs on this. Wednesday, January 20, PM. This is a Server R2 forum. If all of your missing perf mon counters are SQL related, I would suggest you also ask this in a SQL forum specific to the version you are running. How can we setup Performance Monitor to collect data all of the time, so we can go back and review the data when needed? S There is no exact threshold for lot of the counters to determine if there is an issue on your server, so it is very important to collect performance counter data while the server is running healthy, so you can give yourself a baseline to measure against J.

Start Perfmon: There are many ways to start perfmon and here are a few methods. When it starts you will get a screen like the following:. Here we will work on latest version of perfmon. In above picture we can see the following items:. From this we can tell when there are peaks for specific counters that may be causing performance issues. Click add and you will get one more popup to add counters as below.

For production servers, obviously you don't want to collect data every 15 seconds which may put too much pressure on your server and also waste storage as well. Here is the example. Click next and browse to location where you want to save your logs. Setting Collector Properties: This will decide how the data will be stored once it is collected. For this example I chose " Text file Comma delimited " and chose " End file names with: yyyymmdd ".

In description we can give brief detail about this collector; this will be beneficial if no. You can modify location of logs and schedule of collector using below setting. Here we can decide naming convention of logfiles and logmode. I had led it run for 1 hour and then stopped it. Once your data collection is done Go to and click red arr-owed. And you will get below. Now you got completed graph but to analyze this data we need to store in excel file. Performance Monitor in Windows Server gives us the ability to see when our servers are having some issues.

First collect your data. Right click the graph and select Save Data As. Now I will show you how I use Excel to analyze the data to help determine where your bottlenecks may be and also an easy way to create quick reports and charts for your SQL Servers. Step 1: Open the csv file. Once you have collected the performance data you can open the csv file using Excel and you should see data similar to the following.

Step 2: Adjust the format. There were massive changes in this Windows release in the area of Virtualization. However besides these changes, there were some more which have implications in how we need to look at the CPU consumption on a server running Windows Server R2.

However we are only supporting CPUs today as there are no servers available for us to test anything higher than CPUs.