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Essential Windows Performance Counters

For list of others essential performance counters for applications based on Windows platform see  here . When there is a requirement of collecting performance counters during performance testing, it becomes tough to select few counters from existing many.  All counters are important in its context and cannot be simply ignored.  So, it is very important to recheck the list of counters that needs to be monitored before every performance run.  You might need to change the counters as per yours requirements. Following are some of the windows counters, that I find bare essential to start with though.  The list of counters and its preferred  / threshold values are being collected from multiple relevant blogs / links and have been mentioned in the ‘References’ section below. Performance Object Performance Counter Preferred Value Logical Disk % Free Space > 10% Memory Available Bytes > 20% of Physical RAM % Committed Bytes in Use