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Monitoring Performance of a server at times of peak usage

Hi Guys,

One of our clients have a server which is SBS 2011 server which is running on 8GB RAM and some SATA hard-disks.

I have noticed that during times of peak usage server performance is too slow and when I rdp into the server it is excruciatingly slow to respond to clicks etc.

I am trying to give the clients concrete evidence on this, so that they can justify upgrading it.

So, basically I am looking for a free software that will help me monitor server performance in peak hours and report back logs to me in graphical format that I can take back to them as evidence.

Thanks in advance
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I am sorry this is too much work. I need a software that will constantly monitor it during peak hours when I cannot be remoted into server and send me some graphs on performance.

Have used Performance monitor.
It is too much work to tune it to send such reports.
you can use PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) for the same.
see the below link for details :
http://www.petri.co.il/analyze-windows-performance-logs.htm

download link :
http://pal.codeplex.com/releases/view/10274
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Pradeep,

Pal seems only for xp and 32 bit os. So no use to me
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Hi Guys,

These are not the answers I was expecting, I was more after a toool
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for manav08's comment #a39494935

for the following reason:

Not what I was expecting from EE members
The user asked for free software, and several were provided.  If they are "not what I was expecting" … then author should provide some constraints or be more specific.

But regardless, this was answered within the constraints of the original question.
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Jarmod1,

As the question says "I am looking for a free software that will help me monitor server performance in peak hours and report back logs to me in graphical format that I can take back to them as evidence.".

All tools suggested hereby do not fit my requirement as they are not able to record the analysis in real time and report back the peak usage between a certain number of hours.  It surely can be done but the input I feel I received on this question was not from people who have tooo much experience with this and were just googling solutions.

I will stick to what I said before, but if you feel someone is worthy of the points here, kindly award them and I wont argue.
This statement is entirely wrong and means you did not explore the suggestion made.

"All tools suggested hereby do not fit my requirement as they are not able to record the analysis in real time and report back the peak usage between a certain number of hours.  "

http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/monitoring-windows.html
Every one of them do have this capability. It has to be configured.   They will record and then one has to look at the results and determine peak usage from the recorded results.

Granted configuration and setup is required, and it is non-trivial.  But you want free.  So some assembly is going to be required.