Use windows performance logs and alerts

You can use Microsoft Performance Logs and Alerts console to monitor system variables that pertain to your computer's operating system and hardware. Performance Logs and Alerts allows you to view different types of counters that have been incorporated into the Windows operating system.

In Performance Logs and Alerts, "counters" are associated with objects and with instances of objects. Objects include memory, processes, servers, system, and so on. Instances of objects identify, for example, specific processes. Counters include such measurements as percentage of processor time, private bytes, available memory, and so on. The available counters depend on the object and the instances selected.

You can select one or more process instances so that the Performance Logs and Alerts provides measurements of counters for, for example, all the AVEVA Historian processes running within the Windows operating system.

Using counters within Performance Logs and Alerts can provide valuable information to assist in system tuning and to identify bottlenecks in a sluggish system. Using the Pool Non-paged Bytes counter of the memory object, for instance, can identify memory leaks that contribute to a poorly responsive system.

For information on using Performance Logs and Alerts, see the documentation for your Windows operating system.