What is the purpose of PerfCounter target in NLog

Question

The documentation is quite terse. Is the purpose to benchmark the logging itself, or to benchmark my code? Do I need to put the PERF target inside another target? Or it is the other way around? Can someone give an example of how I should use it?

Answer 1

Never tried using it myself, but I can see there are two options in NLog for dealing with Windows Performance Counters:

• PerfCounter-Target - Allows you generate Performance Counter Values, that can be picked up by an external Windows Performance Counter Monitor Application.
• PerformanceCounter-Renderer - Allows you to capture the value of an existing Windows Performance Counter in the log-output.

Have updated the PerfCounter-Target-Wiki about using install to create the performance counter. Found some example code here: PerformanceCounterTarget Class

Here is someone that actually have used the PerCounter-Target: Performance Counters with NLog