You can add additional metrics to this graph, by clicking on the green plus and adding more metrics. This, by itself, isn’t terribly useful as the data is a rolling value and really we want to know if there are adverse conditions.
When you first click on Performance Monitor you will be shown a moving line graph that defaults to %Processor Time. If Performance Monitor is not launched as an Administrator, its utility will be limited and you may not see the Data Collector Sets or Reports. The default view upon launching highlights a few different areas and real-time metrics. What is Perfmon?Īvailable since the early days of Windows in various iterations, Performance Monitor is available as an MMC snap-in to Windows intended to assist in monitoring system usage and various performance metrics. In this article, we explore how to properly use the alerting ability of Perfmon with a high CPU usage.
This utility has many overlooked abilities, one of them being the ability to alert on various metric conditions. One of the more overlooked tools in Windows is Perfmon, otherwise known as performance monitor.
