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Wheneverthecomputerislaggingorsomeapplicationistakingtoo
longtorespond,weusuallyfireuptaskmanagerandlookunderthe
PerformancetaborunderProcessestocheckonprocessor
utilizationortheamountoffreememoryavailable.Thetask
managerisidealforrealtimeanalysisofCPUandmemory
utilization.ItevendisplaysashorthistoryofCPUutilizationinthe
formofagraph.Yougetasmalltimewindow,about30secondsor
so,dependingonhowlargetheviewingareais.

However,30secondsisrathershorttomakeanymeaningfulanalysisoftheperformanceofaprocessorthe
systemasawhole.SomeuserslamentthatthereisnodataloggingfeatureinTaskManagertoplotCPUusage
overalongertimeduration.Truthis,thetaskmanagerisntmeanttobeusedasaperformanceanalysistool.For
thispurposethereisanothermorepowerfultoolcalledPerformanceMonitor.ItisapartofWindowsandithasthe
abilitytorecordCPUandmemoryutilizationandahostofotherparametersforalongperiodoftime.
TolaunchPerformanceMonitor,pressWin+RonyourkeyboardandintheRundialogboxtypeperfmonandpress
Enter.
TogetanimmediateandrealtimeviewofCPUutilization,clickonPerformanceMonitoronthelefthandConsole
Tree.Thecolorschemeofthegraphisdifferent(redoverwhite),butitisthesamegraphyoucanseeunderTask
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Manager.
ToenableloggingyouhavetocreateanewDataCollectorSet.Onthenavigationpanelontheleft,expandData
CollectorSetandrightclickonUserDefined.FromtheNewmenuclickDataCollectorSet.

Giveanametothesetthatyoucanrecognizelater,andchoosetheradiobuttonCreatemanually.ClickNext.

Undertypeofdata,chooseCreateDataLogandchecktheboxPerformancecounter.ClickNext.

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HereIwanttoaddaquicknoteonthedifferenttypesofdatalogavailableandwhateachofthemdoes.
Performancecountersaremeasurementsofsystemstateoractivity.Thisoptionpollstherequested
parametersatspecifiedtimeintervalsandrecordsthedatareturned.
Eventtracedataonlylogstheeventwhensomethinghappens.Thedataiscollectedfromtraceproviders,which
arecomponentsoftheoperatingsystemorofindividualapplicationsthatreportactionsorevents.
ConfigurationinformationiscollectedfromkeyvaluesintheWindowsregistry.WindowsPerformanceMonitor
canrecordthevalueofaregistrykeyataspecifiedtimeorinterval.
Nowisthetimetochoosetheperformancecounterswhichyouwouldliketolog.ClickontheAddbuttonandchoose
oneofthemanyavailablecounters.Youcanlogprocessorutilization,processoridletimeorinterrupttime,memory
usage,USBactivityanddozensofothercounters.Inthisexample,wechoseProcessorTime.

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Adjustthepollinterval.5secondsshoulddo.

Atthisstep,youcaneitherclicktheFinishbuttonorprogressthoughthenextfewstepswhereyoucanspecifythe
locationofthelogfileorconfiguretheDataCollectorSettorunasaspecificuser.

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Oncethedatasetiscreated,runit.TheDataCollectorSetwillstartrecordingdatafromthechosenperformance
monitor,inourcase,CPUutilization.Reportsarentavailablewhenthedatasetisrunning.Afteryoustopit,youcan
seeyourreportundertheReportsdirectoryinthenavigationpanel.

HereisourCPUutilizationgraphrecordedoveraperiodof3minutes.

AsidefromCPUutilizationyoucanrecordmemoryusage,diskactivity,networkactivity,systemevents,andseveral
otherthings.

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Anonymous January30,2013at8:11PM
This is absolutely fantastic. I've been looking all over for a resource monitoring tool and this works just
great.Thanks
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Anonymous April12,2013at3:25AM
I'musuallytroubleshootinglinuxboxesandwaslookingforsomethinglikesar.Havingthisrightoutthebox
inWin7isgreat.Thanksforthearticle,helpedloads!
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Anonymous May28,2013at6:07PM
how to monitor multiple instances of IE 8 in Perfmon? IE 8 creates a new process every time a tab is
created.willthenewprocesswillbeautomaticallymonitored?
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Kaushik May29,2013at10:50AM
I'mnotsureaboutIE8'smultipleprocessesmonitoring.Whydon'tyoutryitoutandreportyourfindings
here?
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Anonymous November8,2013at8:53AM
But I don't think processor time tells the CPU usage as I'm doing performance test. I googled it and
somebodysaidthereisacalculationbetweenprocessortimeandCPUusage.
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Anonymous May16,2014at4:50PM
Hi,HowtoviewCPUUsageforaparticularapplicationinstanceorobject
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Kaushik May16,2014at10:53PM
YouwillfindthatinformationinResourceMonitor.Seethis
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Anonymous June26,2014at9:01AM
Great.Ifinallyfoundthisusefularticle.
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Anonymous April28,2015at4:08PM
Thanks,Niceandstraighttopointtutorial.
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Anonymous July9,2015at1:56AM
Justwantedtosecondwhateveryoneelseissayingthatthisisafantastictutorialthatexactlyexplained
whatIwaslookingfor.
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Anonymous July28,2015at3:31PM
thisisniceforcpuusageanalysisonWindows7withoutotherexternaltools.
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Kiddo! October8,2015at11:04AM
Youmentionedthatwecanseereportsonlywhenthecollectionisstopped?Itmeanseverytimewehave
tostopittoseereports?Thissomehowdoesnotsounduserfriendly.
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