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Where can I find documentation for publishing data to perfmon in C++?

Years ago I wrote some code to "publish" data for perfmon to consume. Using those counters is pretty well documented, but I found it challenging to find (at the time) good documentation and sample code to publish the data for perfmon.

Does anyone know where I can get this documentation? I also seem to recall some class wrappers, but I may be mistaken.

EDIT:

I did find this, and I will keep looking for "custom application performance counters".

Solution

  • You're bringing back old memories!

    From 1998, Jeffrey Richter wrote an article in Microsoft Systems Journal describing how to create your own perfmon counters, its very easy (after cutting and pasting his template code just add shared-memory variables in a dll, and update them as needed).