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:
   
2. Once the Data Collector Set application has been created, add new Data Collector to the Data Collector Set, as shown in the following screenshot:
   
3. Name new Data Collector and select the Performance counter data collector radio button, as shown in the following screenshot:
   
4. Add the following counters for the object _Total instance to the data collector:
   • \LogicalDisk\Avg. Disk Sec/Read
   • \LogicalDisk\Avg. Disk Sec/Write
   • \LogicalDisk\Disk Bytes/Sec
   • \LogicalDisk\Disk Reads/Sec
   • \LogicalDisk\Disk Writes/Sec
   • \LogicalDisk\Split IO/sec
   • \LogicalDisk...