Capturing Performance Counter Log Data

Once you have configured a performance counter so that its log results can be converted to TSD format using csv2tsd.exe, you can start capturing remote-server log data using the performance counter.

  1. Open the Windows Performance Monitor tool ( Administrative Tools > Performance ).
  2. Expand the Performance Logs and Alerts tree node.
  3. Click the Counter Logs node.
  4. Right-click a counter log in the right-hand window and select Start from the context menu. Active counters are shown in green. Inactive counters are shown in red. Generated CSV counter log files have the following format:
    "(PDH-CSV 4.0) (W. Europe Standard Time)(-60)","\\JONES\Processor(_Total)\% Interrupt Time","\\JONES\Processor(_Total)\% Privileged Time","\\JONES\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time"
"02/25/2008 23:24:23.826"," "," "," "
"02/25/2008 23:24:38.841","0","0.10406093659265107","0.10150087105497141"
"02/25/2008 23:24:53.841","0.052084666700800877","1.8229633345280307","2.4454192693999621"
"02/25/2008 23:25:08.840","0.052084666700800877","3.0729953353472514","5.4663299380464103"
"02/25/2008 23:25:23.840","0.052084666700800877","0.57293133370880955","1.0391332684783428"
Parent topic: Converting Data from CSV to TSD