Performance Counter Monitors - Not Returning Statistics?

rionoskae

Grabbed the "Microsoft Message Queuing Performance"  template from thwack and assigned it to a few nodes.

Howevever, after letting it run for the last 24 hours - It doesnt' seem to be returning any statistic data, only shows up / down. Which isn't very useful.

Fell like I'm missing something obvious here... any help would be appreciated!

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rionoskae

So I haven't found a way to address the out of the box performance counter monitors not giving statistics, but I was able to whip this PowerShell Component monitor together in the mean time. Hopefully it can help some others as well.

Here is a working example that focuses on the MSMQ Perfmon counters in particular. Can just use "-Listset * " to get a list of everything.

#Helpful Commands to find your target WMI PerfMon Counters
######################################################
#Get-Counter –ListSet MSMQ*
#Get-Counter –ListSet "MSMQ Service" -Computer "server name" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Counter

$Counter =  '\\${Node.Caption}\MSMQ Service\Outgoing Messages/sec'
$Data = Get-Counter $Counter

#Display ONLY "Counter CookedValue"
$Value = $Data.CounterSamples[0].CookedValue

Write-Host 'Message: MSMQ Service Outgoing Messages/sec'
Write-Host 'Statistic: ' $Value
exit(0)