System Insights
We summarized System Insights in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Windows Server 2022, but we definitely want to revisit it here in our chapter on troubleshooting. This is because this tool gathers all the right parts and pieces to help us build a comprehensive story about what is going on with our servers, and to help predict critical points at which servers may run out of resources and need to be upgraded or expanded.
System Insights is all about predictive analytics. It is available on any Windows Server 2022 (you just need to enable it) and utilizes performance counters to monitor the system and record data. This data is stored on the local server, which is important because it means you do not have to go through a bunch of work and hoops to implement some kind of centralized database to retain the data, nor perform any cloud work to maintain these metrics. The information collected by System Insights is individual per server and is retained on each server for...