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Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide
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Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide

by Clint Huffman
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 16m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 12

Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool

Abstract

This chapter provides common usage and threshold file editing of the open-source Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool.

Keywords

PAL

Perfmon

Performance counter

Counter path

Data collector

Counter log

BLG

Windows

Windows Server

Performance Analysis of Logs

Introduction

The Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool is an open-source project that I started in 2007. The idea came to me when I was teaching both the Vital Signs workshop (training focused on Performance Monitor log analysis) and VBScripting. There is a lot to keep in mind when analyzing performance counters, and VBScript was there to automate things, so it just made sense to write a tool that would automatically analyze counter logs.

I originally ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780124167018