Important counter sets for monitoring ASP.NET performance using Perfmon Tool

Atul Verma14 years ago.NET, ASP.NET, Tips

For Any ASP.NET application, monitoring performance is an important job. Performance Monitor tool having some nice features that helps us to monitor ASP.NET Application performance in a better way.In this Tips I discuss four important counter sets that are very useful in monitoring ASP.NET performance.

These are highlighted below

Steps:

1. Open the Perfmon [ Start > Run > Perfmon ].

2. Add the Counters. Specify local or remote computer.

3. The four types of sets are

W3SVC_W3WP: Exposes HTTP request processing related counters for the worker process as displayed below

WAS_W3WP: Exposes Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) related counters for the worker process as displayed below

Web Service: Includes counters specific to the World Wide Web Publishing Service as displayed below

Web Service Cache: Includes cache counters specific to the World Wide Web Publishing Service as displayed below

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Atul Verma

I am working at Microsoft as a .NET Consultant. I have an experience of 5 years in .NET technologies and application packaging. My expertise include .NET Framework(4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0), WPF, WCF, ASP.net, AJAX, Web Services, Enterprise Library, Enterprise Applications, SharePoint 2010, Web Services, SQL Server (2008, 2005), Open Xml, MS Word Automation.