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How to monitor performance on windows server 2012 R2

I have been asked to take snapshot of performance on a windows 2012 R2 server every 10 minutes over the course of a 24 hour period. I need to measure:
1. Overall % CPU Usage: preferably all processors combined.
2. Total % RAM Usage
3. Total % Disk Usage.

I have run some Performance Monitor Data collector sets with multiple counters selected for each measurement and the interval set to 10 Min and exported them to excel, It looks good but I'm not sure which counters will most accurately give me the above metrics?

Is there another tool (preferably free) that would better server my purposes here?

Thanks
Bob

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Dan McFadden

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Dan McFadden

I skipped 2 counters. I would include these 2 in the list:

4a. Network Interface -> Bytes Received/sec -> add for the NIC(s) that this is main network connection
4b. Network Interface -> Bytes Sent/sec -> add for the NIC(s) that this is main network connection

Dan

nflynn85

Dan, I've been asked to do something similar. Mainly for disk space, but liked what you had recommended above. Currently zero monitoring on this 2012 server we have and I'd also like to get a full picture of what's going on.

Is there any way to get perfmon to output the results to a log? Or generate some kind of report?

Dan McFadden

@nflynn85: You just create a User Defined Data Collector Set, build it based on a template or your custom selections, take note of where the files will be stored, save it and start it.

After the perfmon collector set is run, you will find the reports under the Reports > User Defined > YourDataCollectorSetName location. Just click on the 1 or more reports that should be there.

Dan

Doctor-Bob

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@nflynn85 You can right click on the Data Collector set graphical display and choose export to excel to get the RAW data.

I have used this tool https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296652(v=bts.10).aspx to create very detailed reports from the collected data

Doctor-Bob

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Thanks Dan, you post was helpful in determining which counters I needed

nflynn85

Cheers gents!