Membership in the local Users group, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete this procedure.

Note

You must have permission to access the log data source in order to view it in Performance Monitor.

To access a log data source in Performance Monitor

  1. In the Windows Performance Monitor navigation pane, expand Monitoring Tools and click Performance Monitor.

  2. In the console pane toolbar, click the Add Log Data button. The Performance Monitor Properties page will open at the Source tab.

  3. In the Data Source section, select Database.

  4. Choose a System Data Source Name (DSN) and Log set from the drop-down lists.

  5. Click Time Range to see times included in the log you selected. You can move the beginning and ending time sliders to view only a portion of the log file in Performance Monitor.

  6. When you are finished, click OK.

  7. Right-click in the Performance Monitor display and click Add Counters. The Add Counters dialog box will open. Only the counters included in the log data source you selected in step 4 will be available.

  8. Select the counters you want to view in the Performance Monitor graph and click OK. For help adding counters, see Add Counters Dialog Box.

    Note

    You can select multiple counter groups or counters at the same time by holding down the CTRL key and clicking on the group names or counter names, and then clicking OK.

Additional considerations

  • To start Windows Performance Monitor, click Start, click in the Start Search box, type perfmon, and press ENTER.

  • You can also open Performance Monitor in its own window by typing perfmon /sys and pressing ENTER in the Start Search box or at a command prompt.

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