August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 16m
English
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
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 ...