Monitor Windows performance counters using Applicare Dotnet Agent

To install Applicare dotnet agent 8.8.0 and above, refer to the instructions here.

Once the applicare dotnet agent is installed and started, in Sensor Analyzer -> Settings, we can see all the windows performance counters available in the dotnet agent machine.

By default applicare will list all the performance counters with its instance and properties. If we want to monitor only few counters the we filter the counters using the following steps.

Create file PerfCounter.props in the path <AGENT_INSTALLED_DIRECTORY>\Profiler, if it doesn't exist

Open the file PerfCounter.props and add the counter/instance names seperated by commas. We can give partial name also.

Save the file and restart applicare dotnet agent. It will start monitor only the counters/instances given in the above file.

To add performance counters as sensors, refer to the instructions here.