List of Performance Counters for Windows Azure Web roles

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Avkash Chauhan - MSFT4

Here
is a list of performance counters, which you can use with Windows Azure Web
Role:

 

// .NET
3.5 counters

@”\ASP.NET
Apps v2.0.50727(__Total__)\Requests Total”

@”\ASP.NET
Apps v2.0.50727(__Total__)\Requests/Sec”

@”\ASP.NET
v2.0.50727\Requests Queued”

@”\ASP.NET
v2.0.50727\Requests Rejected”

@”\ASP.NET
v2.0.50727\Request Execution Time”

@”\ASP.NET
v2.0.50727\Requests Queued”


// Latest
.NET Counters (4.0)

@”\ASP.NET
Applications(__Total__)\Requests Total”

@”\ASP.NET
Applications(__Total__)\Requests/Sec”

@”\ASP.NET\Requests
Queued”

@”\ASP.NET\Requests
Rejected”

@”\ASP.NET\Request
Execution Time”

@”\ASP.NET\Requests
Disconnected”


@”\ASP.NET v4.0.30319\Requests
Current”

@”\ASP.NET v4.0.30319\Request Wait
Time”

@”\ASP.NET v4.0.30319\Requests
Queued”

@”\ASP.NET v4.0.30319\Requests
Rejected”



@”\Processor(_Total)\% Processor
Time”

@”\Memory\Available MBytes

@”\Memory\Committed Bytes”


@”\TCPv4\Connections
Established”

@”\TCPv4\Segments Sent/sec”

@””\TCPv4\Connection
Failures”

@””\TCPv4\Connections
Reset”


@”\Network Interface(Microsoft
Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter _2)\Bytes Received/sec”

@”\Network Interface(Microsoft
Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter _2)\Bytes Sent/sec”

@”\Network Interface(Microsoft
Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter _2)\Bytes Total/sec”

@”\Network
Interface(*)\Bytes Received/sec”

@”\Network
Interface(*)\Bytes Sent/sec”


@”\.NET CLR Memory(_Global_)\%
Time in GC”

 


You
can define “AddAzurePerformanceCounter” class in your Web Role as below:


 


public class AddAzurePerformanceCounter

{

private IList<PerformanceCounterConfiguration> _perfCounters;

       public AddAzurePerformanceCounter (IList<PerformanceCounterConfiguration>
counterCollection)

      {

       _perfCounters = counterCollection;

      }


      public void AddPerformanceCounter(string counterName, int
minuteInterval)

      {

      PerformanceCounterConfiguration perfCounter = new PerformanceCounterConfiguration();

      perfCounter.CounterSpecifier
=counterName;

      perfCounter.SampleRate
= System.TimeSpan.FromMinutes(minuteInterval);

      _perfCounters.Add(perfCounter);

      }

}


Add Performance Counters as
Below:


AddAzurePerformanceCounter counters = new AddAzurePerformanceCounter(diagConfig.PerformanceCounters.DataSources);


counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\Processor(_Total)\%
Processor Time”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\Memory\Available
MBytes”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\ASP.NET
v4.0.30319\Requests Current”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\TCPv4\Connections
Established”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\TCPv4\Segments
Sent/sec”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\Network
Interface(Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter _2)\Bytes Received/sec”,
5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\Network
Interface(Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter _2)\Bytes
Sent/sec”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\Network
Interface(Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter _2)\Bytes
Total/sec”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\.NET
CLR Memory(_Global_)\% Time in GC”, 5);

counters.AddPerformanceCounter(@”\ASP.NET
Applications(__Total__)\Requests/Sec”, 5);





 

Comments (4)

  1. Kiran svm says:
    May 26, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    Can this be used same for VM Role?

    Reply
  2. Avkash Chauhan - MSFT says:
    May 27, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    Yes.

    Reply
  3. harsh says:
    July 6, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    is this true for worker role as well? ( not sure if VM role is same as worker role).

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  4. codingoutloud says:
    April 4, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    @harsh – Web and Worker Roles running nearly identical VM images, so the approach should be fine, but on Worker Role IIS is not running by default so the ASP.NET perf counters won't do much for you.

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