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How to monitor WCF Service up time using Performance Counters?

I'd like to know what is the up-time of WCF service using Performance Counters. Is there a specific counter for that? Or is there a way to get this information from other counters?

Solution

  • As far as I know there is no WCF performance counter that will give you the uptime.

    However,

    • if you host it in IIS, you can use the 'Service Uptime' in 'Web Service', or
    • if you host it differently (e.g. Windows Service, Console Application), you can use the 'Elapsed Time' in 'Process' (unless you don't start/stop the WCF host when the process starts/stops).