Work on PAL v2.0 (PowerShell version) is coming along nicely. While working on it, I created a functional proof of concept PowerShell script called Bling.ps1 which will read a performance monitor log (BLG or CSV) and will create graphical charts for all of the counters in it. PAL v1.x only creates charts...

As a reminder to everyone, use the perf counter “\Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical Processor(_Total)\% Total Run Time” to measure CPU in a Hyper-V environment. If you are trying to measure CPU utilization in a Hyper-V environment and are a bit frustrated as to why the numbers don’t match...

Introduction Performance analysis of log files (*.blg files) in Microsoft Windows has primarily been a manual process for as long as I can remember. We [Microsoft] have made some strides in this area, but there is still little out there that analyzes log files *after* a problem has occurred. Furthermore...

Sorry, I haven't blogged much in the past few months. I've been heads down on several exciting BizTalk projects which I'll blog about soon after this one. For now, I want to get more of the word out about the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool that I wrote in collaboration with other people on my...

I'm a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) and I go onsite with customers on a regular basis to conduct Health Checks. This is my first blog posting on TechNet, but I figured it would be on something important versus "Hello World". ;-) More and more I am seeing customers who are not aware of kernel memory...