May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
12h 2m
English
One of the best ways to monitor CPU utilization with PowerShell is by querying performance counters. We can also get this information using WMI. In this recipe, you'll learn a few techniques that can be used to monitor CPU utilization using the
Get-Counter and
Get-WmiObject cmdlets.
Processor(_Total)\% ProcessorTime performance counter:
Get-Counter "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" -Continuous
This would continuously output the total utilization across each CPU, as shown:

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