Data Collector Reports?
Windows 2008R2 Standard 64bit.
I created a user defined perf monitor and it produced a report that has three heading, Windows Trace Report, Application Counters, and Report Statistics last Sept. Then I must have went back and tinkered with it because later reports only have the
Windows Trace Report, and Report Statistics. The app counter section was great because it has things like the Mean, the Minimum, and Maximum listed for the counters.
Now I'm trying to create a new user defined perf monitor to generate a report that has the App counter category included and I'm struggling. Would someone clue me in on what I need to do to get that App counter category included in the report?
If you need more info let me know.
May 19th, 2011 2:41pm
Adding a Performance Counter data collector will give you the Application Counters section of the report.
In Perfmon under Data Collector Sets, right-click User Defined, click
New, select Create manually (advanced), click
Next, and on that next screen that says What type of data do you want to include, make sure you include
Performance Counter, because that is what results in the
Application Counters section being present in the report.
If you already have a data collector set created, right-click its name under
User Defined and select New, Data Collector. You'll see
What type of data collector would you like to create? and there you select
Performance counter data collector.
If you are command-line inclined,
Logman lets you do this as well. For example, if you had a data collector set named Test1, you could add a Performance Counter data collector with a command like this:
logman create counter Test1\Processor -c "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time"
Logman query shows you the data collectors that are configured and
Logman query <data collector name> will show you the properties of a data collector.
For example here are the properties of a user-defined data collector set created with the
Basic template. The data collector named Performance Counter which is of type
Counter is what would result in Application Counters showing up in the report.
C:\>logman query Basic_Test1
Name: Basic_Test1
Status: Stopped
Root Path: %systemdrive%\PerfLogs\Admin\Basic_Test1
Duration: 60 second(s)
Segment: Off
Schedules: On
Run as: SYSTEM
Name: Basic_Test1\Performance Counter
Type: Counter
Output Location: C:\PerfLogs\Admin\Basic_Test1\<username>_20110521-000001\Performance Counter.blg
Append: Off
Circular: Off
Overwrite: Off
Sample Interval: 1 second(s)
Counters:
\Processor(*)\*
Name: Basic_Test1\Configuration
Type: Configuration
Output Location: C:\PerfLogs\Admin\Basic_Test1\<username>_20110521-000001\Configuration.xml
Append: Off
Circular: Off
Overwrite: Off
Network Interfaces: On
Registry Entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\
Name: Basic_Test1\Kernel Trace
Type: Trace
Output Location: C:\PerfLogs\Admin\Basic_Test1\<username>_20110521-000001\Kernel Trace.etl
Append: Off
Circular: Off
Overwrite: Off
Buffer Size: 64
Buffers Lost: 0
Buffers Written: 0
Buffer Flush Timer: 0
Clock Type: Performance
File Mode: File
Provider:
Name: Windows Kernel Trace
Provider Guid: {9E814AAD-3204-11D2-9A82-006008A86939}
Level: 0
KeywordsAll: 0x0
KeywordsAny: 0x10303 (process,thread,disk,file,net)
Properties: 0
Filter Type: 0
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May 21st, 2011 9:06am