Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Reducing Performance Monitoring Overhead

Performance monitoring uses system resources that can affect the performance of a system as well as affect the data being collected. To ensure that performance monitoring and analyzing do not affect the machines being monitored themselves, you need to decrease the impact of performance monitoring. Some steps can be taken to ensure that performance-monitoring overhead is kept to a minimum on the server being monitored to create as accurate of an analysis on a system as possible:

• Use a remote server to monitor the target server. Servers can actually be dedicated to monitoring several remote servers. Although this might also lead to an increase in network bandwidth, at least the monitoring and tracking ...