Using Windows Performance Monitor

The Microsoft Windows PerfMon can be used to collect performance information, such as CPU utilization, memory utilization, and disk I/O utilization of the Windows servers.

How to do it…

In this example, Microsoft Windows PerfMon is used to collect disk I/O metrics using the following steps:

  1. Open Performance Monitor and use the Data Collector Set wizard to create a user-defined data collector as displayed in the following screenshot:
    How to do it…
  2. Once the Data Collector Set application has been created, add a new Data Collector to the Data Collector Set as shown in the following screenshot:
  3. Name the new Data Collector and select ...

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