Windows Performance Monitoring Counters

Windows Performance Monitoring Counters:

 Steps To Set Performance Monitoring Counters in Windows Server Machine:

1. Go to Run in Start

2. Type Perfmon Press Enter

3.Right Click on Right Pane and Press Add Counters
4. Add the counters to be monitored at run time


Note:You can also collect the values of counters by setting New Collector for post analysis and report preparation

Resources	Performance Monitoring Counters	Description
Processor	% Processor Time	% Processor Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the processor spends to execute a non-Idle thread.
	% Previledge Time	% Privileged Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the process threads spent executing code in privileged mode.
	% User Time	% User Time is the percentage of elapsed time the processor spends in the user mode.
	Interepts/Sec	Interrupts/sec is the average rate, in incidents per second, at which the processor received and serviced hardware interrupts
Process	% Privileged Time	% Privileged Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the process threads spent executing code in privileged mode
	% Processor Time	% Processor Time is the percentage of elapsed time that all of process threads used the processor to execution instructions.
	% User time	% User Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the process threads spent executing code in user mode.
	Page Faults/sec	Page Faults/sec is the rate at which page faults by the threads executing in this process are occurring.
	Page File Bytes	Page File Bytes is the current amount of virtual memory, in bytes, that this process has reserved for use in the paging file(s).
	Thread Count	The number of threads currently active in this process.
	Working Set	Working Set is the current size, in bytes, of the Working Set of this process.
	Working Set Peak	Working Set Peak is the maximum size, in bytes, of the Working Set of this process at any point in time.
Memory	Available Mbytes	Available MBytes is the amount of physical memory, in Megabytes, immediately available for allocation to a process or for system use.
	Catche Faults/sec	Cache Faults/sec is the rate at which faults occur when a page sought in the file system cache is not found and must be retrieved from elsewhere in memory (a soft fault) or from disk (a hard fault).
	Page Faults/sec	Page Faults/sec is the average number of pages faulted per second.
	Page write/sec	Page Writes/sec is the rate at which pages are written to disk to free up space in physical memory.
	Page read/sec	Page Reads/sec is the rate at which the disk was read to resolve hard page faults.
	Pages/sec	Pages/sec is the rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve hard page faults.
	Pool NonPaged Bytes	Pool Nonpaged Bytes is the size, in bytes, of the nonpaged pool, an area of system memory (physical memory used by the operating system) for objects that cannot be written to disk, but must remain in physical memory as long as they are allocated.
Network Interface	Bytes Received/sec	Bytes Received/sec is the rate at which bytes are received over each network adapter, including framing characters.
	Bytes Sent/sec	ytes Sent/sec is the rate at which bytes are sent over each network adapter, including framing characters. Network Interface\Bytes Sent/sec is a subset of Network Interface\Bytes Total/sec.
	Bytes Total/sec	Bytes Total/sec is the rate at which bytes are sent and received over each network adapter, including framing characters.
	Packets/sec	Packets/sec is the rate at which packets are sent and received on the network interface.
	Packets Sent/sec	Packets Sent/sec is the rate at which packets are sent on the network interface.
	Packets Received/sec	Packets Received/sec is the rate at which packets are received on the network interface.
Physical Disk	% Disk time	% Disk Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive was busy servicing read or write requests.
	Avg Disk bytes/transfer	Avg. Disk Bytes/Transfer is the average number of bytes transferred to or from the disk during write or read operations.
	Disk Read bytes/sec	Disk Read Bytes/sec is the rate at which bytes are transferred from the disk during read operations.
	Disk write bytes/sec	Disk Write Bytes/sec is rate at which bytes are transferred to the disk during write operations.
	Disk transfer/sec	Disk Transfers/sec is the rate of read and write operations on the disk.
	Disk write/sec	Disk Writes/sec is the rate of write operations on the disk.
	% Disk Read Time	% Disk Read Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive was busy servicing read requests.
	% Disk Write Time	% Disk Write Time is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive was busy servicing write requests.
	Avg Disk Queue Length	Avg. Disk Queue Length is the average number of both read and write requests that were queued for the selected disk during the sample interval.
	Current Disk Queue Length	Current Disk Queue Length is the number of requests outstanding on the disk at the time the performance data is collected.
System	Context switches/sec	Context Switches/sec is the combined rate at which all processors on the computer are switched from one thread to another.
	Processor Queue Length	Processor Queue Length is the number of threads in the processor queue.
	Threads	Threads is the number of threads in the computer at the time of data collection.
Objects	Processes	Processes is the number of processes in the computer at the time of data collection.
	Threads	Threads is the number of threads in the computer at the time of data collection.

Note: Counters shown above are the general one,More counters can be added depending on the type of application like [for .Net application;It is recommended to add counters related to the .Net application]

We will soon share the more counters depending on the type of applications.