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How To Create A Baseline Using Windows Performance Monitor

Wednesday, 29 November 2006 by Michel Roth

Jonh Kellet has written a short article on how to create a baseline using Windows performance monitor: The art of using performance monitor is a fairly easy one to acquire but can be one of the most useful skills for troubleshooting all sorts of problems. It�s been included with the Windows operating systems for many years (both server and client versions.) In this article I describe how to use Performance Monitor to create a baseline. This is the place to start so you have something compare any future monitoring sessions with.

Creating a baseline is an important step in using performance monitor as without it you have nothing to compare your data with. It should be taken when your system is running with an average load. For example if you are running a Terminal or Citrix server you may want to take a baseline reading with performance monitor before installing an application, install the application and then take the reading again using the same performance monitor counters while the application is in use.

Taking the baseline reading itself has been known to throw up a few issues. If your server is a stand alone Citrix server and no users are connected to it I would be expecting the system to be pretty much �flatlining�. If one counter is alot higher than you are expecting then you can troubleshoot this before going any further.

Read it here.