You've got SQL Server Tracing data that might show you what pokey database calls your app's making, and you've got PerfMon Counters for Windows, the .NET Framework and IIS; but these are just telling ...

Rolling Your Own Unfortunately, you can sometimes capture SQL Server Tracing data and dozens of PerfMon Counters and still feel like you're just guessing at what the problem is.

MRTG or Cacti using the same Perfmon counters via SNMP is a great tool, and it should be running all the time so that you can have baseline numbers.

Some of the more popular performance counters are for processor and memory usage, simultaneous connections, throughput and response time, SQL Server performance, and Active Server Pages (ASP) and ...

You can use performance counters to monitor a server's health, as well as its corresponding applications and network interactions. Some of the more popular performance counters are for processor and ...

I'm seeing a large amount of pagefile useage on my server running 2 SQL server 2005 x64 instances. Server has 24gb of memory, each instance has 8gb allocated to it. Rest of the memory goes to ...