Get started with Performance Monitor

Welcome to PI Interface for Performance Monitor.

Performance Monitor helps you understand how computers and system components behave over time by collecting measurements such as CPU usage, memory consumption, and disk activity. It focuses on system health and performance trends, allowing you to see how behavior changes rather than just capturing one‑time snapshots.

The interface works within a larger monitoring environment by reading performance counters exposed by operating systems or services and collecting their values on a regular schedule. Its role is to reliably gather and store performance data, not to analyze or visualize it. Each counter represents a specific measurement on a target system, such as a server or virtual machine.

By collecting these measurements consistently, Performance Monitor supports troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance baselining. New users can get value quickly without deep knowledge of counters or advanced configuration, adding that detail later as needs grow.