Windows Server 2003 System Performance Counters

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

The following counters are standard in the Windows Server 2003 operating system, are installed by Setup by default. Note that some may only be visible if you install or start the associated service.

• ACS/RSVP Service Object

• Browser Object

• Cache Object

• Distributed Transaction Coordinator Object

• Http Indexing Service Object

• IAS Accounting Clients Object

• IAS Accounting Server Object

• IAS Authentication Clients Object

• IAS Authentication Server Object

• ICMP Object

• Indexing Service Object

• Indexing Service Filter Object

• IP Object

• Job Object Object

• Job Object Details

• LogicalDisk Object

• Memory Object

• NBT Connection Object

• DUPTILE1_Network Interface Object

• Objects Object

• Paging File Object

• Physical Disk Object

• Print Queue Object

• Process Object

• Processor Object

• Redirector Object

• Server Object

• Server Work Queues Object

• System Object

• TCP Object

• Telephony Object

• Thread Object

• UDP Object

In addition, some counters are considered "costly," meaning that it takes a long time to collect data from them. These counters do not appear in System Monitor and can only be viewed using Showperf.exe or other performance-related tools in the Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference. The following are examples of costly counters:

Image Object

Process Address Space Object

Thread Details Object

For information about bottlenecks in some of these subsystem components, see the following topics:

Find memory bottlenecks

Find processor bottlenecks

Finding Cache Bottlenecks

Find disk bottlenecks

When monitoring multiprocessor systems, see the following topic:

Finding Bottlenecks on Multiprocessor Computers