Performance Counters, Instances and Perfmon

From: Neil Moss (neil.moss_at_sp.am.unitech.net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:17:20 -0000

Hi group,

I cannot get my performance counter instances to appear in perfmon.

Can someone at MS provide a definitive mechanism for how to do this please?

I am writing a web service which may be installed multiple times on the same
server under different web sites. Thus I want instance information.

I created a new category and counters via the server explorer in the IDE. I
dropped PerformanceCounter components onto the Global.asax surface, set the
category name and counter names, and readonly to false. At
application_startup, I determine the name of the instance I want to record
under, set the InstanceName of all my performance counters, and set RawValue
to 0 to initialize the instance.

Nothing happens as far as perfmon is concerned.

The counters themselves all work fine - the values increment properly, but I
just can't see them in perfmon.

Thanks muchly,
Neil Moss.

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