Perfmon Basics Rick Heiges, SQL Server MVP

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 The Perfmon Tool  Real-time Monitoring / Analysis of Selected Counters  Methods of Capturing a Log  Baselines  Reviewing a Log – Analysis  PAL – Free Tool  Relog Agenda

 Once referred to as Sysmon  Also called Performance and Reliability Monitor in Vista  Part of every Windows OS  Usually considered a “light-weight” process  Real-Time Monitor or view a log  Collect data from other systems Perfmon

 Perfmon Tool Demo 1

 Local or Remote System  Scroll or Wrap  Duration – Properties  Freeze / Update / Resume  Pro: See what is Happening Now  Con: No Evidence Real-Time Monitoring

 CPU Counters  \Processor\% Processor Time  \System\Processor Queue Length  \System\Context Switches/sec  Memory  \Memory\Pages/sec  \SQLServer:Buffer Manager\PageLifeExpectancy  \SQLServer:Buffer Manager\LazyWrites/Sec  \SQLServer:Cache Manager\Cache Hit Ratio  \SQLServer:Memory Manager\Memory Grants Pending Selected Counters

 IO Counters  \PhysicalDisk(*)\Disk Transfers/sec  \PhysicalDisk(*)\Disk Read Bytes/sec  \PhysicalDisk(*)\Disk Write Bytes/sec  \Process(sqlservr)\IO Data Operations/sec  \SQLServer:Databases(*)\Transactions/sec  \PhysicalDisk\Avg Sec/Transfer  Network  \Network Interface(*)\Bytes Total/sec There are Many Others! Selected Counters (Cont.)

 Manually Add Counters  Logman  Powershell Methods

 Manually Adding Counters  Logman Demo 2 logman create counter SQLSat380 -cf C:\PerfTemplates\Example\Rick- Lenovo.template -si 00:00:10 -f csv logman start SQLSat380 logman stop SQLSat380

 Zero Activity Baseline  Typical Workload Baseline  End of Month/Etc Baseline Baselines

 Different Views in Perfmon  Line  Bar  Report  PAL  Codeplex FREE Tool  Graphs! Explanations!  Demo - Sample Reviewing a Log

 Allows you transform format of a perflog into another format  Extract out a specific time slice from a Perflog  Filter out specific counters of a Perflog Relog

 Powershell  Relog  Circular Data Collection  Creating your own Management Data Warehouse Beyond Basic Perfmon

 Add / Remove Counters from the Line Graph View of Current Activity  Create a log capture of a few counters. Capture Data for a few days  View your log data in Line Graph View in Perfmon Call To Action

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