Use a third party tool for notifications

You can use a third party tool to extend the abilities of Windows performance monitoring.

Even though you can use Windows Performance Monitor (perfmon) to look at system performance counters and log them to a file - Performance Monitor does not provide a sophisticated notification system and offers no way to send alerts outside of a local area network (LAN).

You can buy a commercial product to perform these functions:

• Aggregate messages from the Performance Monitor alert system, and

• Provide a facility to email these messages through an SMTP server.

Related topics

• Configure Performance Monitor counters

• Set log file maximum size

• Start new log file