Important counter sets for monitoring ASP.NET performance using Perfmon

In this blog I’ll discuss four important counter sets that are very useful in monitoring ASP.NET performance. These are highlighted below

          

Steps:

1. Open the Perfmon.

2. Add the Counters. Specify local or remote computer.

3. The four types of sets are

• W3SVC_W3WP: Exposes HTTP request processing related counters for the worker process as displayed below

              

• WAS_W3WP:  Exposes Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) related counters for the worker process as displayed below

                 

• Web Service: Includes counters specific to the World Wide Web Publishing Service as displayed below

              

• Web Service Cache: Includes cache counters specific to the World Wide Web Publishing Service as displayed below