Performance Counters for Baseline

pham0329

I started my new job earlier this week, and I wanted to get a baseline of all our servers so that I have something to reference to later down the road.

Does anyone have any recommendation as to what counters I need to add? Also, we have over 40 servers, is there a way for me to get a baseline on each one without actually having to rdp into each server?

Ahriakin

You can connect to remote machines from Perfmon (if you don't have a centralised KPI collector). Besides CPU/RAM/Network I'd definitely add Disk-Q length - how deep you want to go depends on your requirements though (page faults, actual latencies and speeds etc.) but Disk-Q is often overlooked and is the simplest representation of hard drive efficiency.