Once you’ve selected a counter, Performance Monitor suggests other counters that make sense to graph together based on their units – for example, Read Bytes/sec and Write Bytes/sec.

To help you choose if you don’t already know, details about each counter appear when you hover your cursor over its name: There are 1,000s of counters out there, so if you already know which one(s) you want, save time by keyword searching the list: To get started, choose the Object, Instance, and Counter from the successive combobox controls at the top.

Just like Windows and your favorite apps, it’s available in light and dark theme: The first thing you’ll notice is the modern look and feel: the app layout is less cluttered, the fonts and icons are crisp and clear, and the colors are vibrant. It runs in your default browser, doesn’t depend on any other software or services, and works with all recent versions of Windows Server and Windows 10. The new Performance Monitor tool is available today in Preview as part of Windows Admin Center version 1910, which you can download here. Today, we’re beyond excited to introduce a reimagined Performance Monitor: (That’s right – over 25 years ago!) It’s difficult to learn and time-consuming to use. The classic user interface for perf counters, Performance Monitor or perfmon.exe, hasn’t changed much since it was added to Windows in 1993. When you need to troubleshoot why something is slow or broken, there’s no source of truth more trusty or versatile than Windows performance counters.

Follow him on Twitter the administrator of Windows computers and servers, you deserve the best tools to understand how features, apps, and devices are working. Written by Cosmos Darwin, Senior PM at Microsoft.

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