Author: StuWhitby
Subject: Windows KPI utilities
Posted: 14 June 2014 at 12:10pm
I'm interested in getting some performance indicators from Windows and dumping the results into a database. This will allow me to effectively monitor the long-term performance of systems through user and data growth, application changes etc and *hopefully* preempt problems and resolve them before they occur. I can get the information that I generally use for monitoring application and system health from many of the sysinternals utilities as long as I'm looking directly at them. What I'd like is the ability to pull information from a running instance of (for example) Process Explorer to get it to provide memory usage (various types), CPU etc. so that I can put this into a database regularly and start using this to create alerts based on resource usage growth over time.
It's not a business idea for me btw. I'd be looking at putting the code on Sourceforge and have people create their own modules for any applications, systems and devices that they'd be monitoring. It would just make my transition from "pure techie" to IT management a whole lot easier :)
Oh, and VMMap could really do with the "strings" window able to be maximised - the only button is to kill the window.
Subject: Windows KPI utilities
Posted: 14 June 2014 at 12:10pm
I'm interested in getting some performance indicators from Windows and dumping the results into a database. This will allow me to effectively monitor the long-term performance of systems through user and data growth, application changes etc and *hopefully* preempt problems and resolve them before they occur. I can get the information that I generally use for monitoring application and system health from many of the sysinternals utilities as long as I'm looking directly at them. What I'd like is the ability to pull information from a running instance of (for example) Process Explorer to get it to provide memory usage (various types), CPU etc. so that I can put this into a database regularly and start using this to create alerts based on resource usage growth over time.
It's not a business idea for me btw. I'd be looking at putting the code on Sourceforge and have people create their own modules for any applications, systems and devices that they'd be monitoring. It would just make my transition from "pure techie" to IT management a whole lot easier :)
Oh, and VMMap could really do with the "strings" window able to be maximised - the only button is to kill the window.