Chapter 14. Adding Performance Counters

Performance counters are a way for services to provide information about their internal usage and statistics. Performance counters represent unlimited possibilities for developers and debuggers to coordinate issue resolution and issue detection. Using built-in system counters that are exposed by the operating system and custom counters that are exposed by a developer, we can use the resulting information to determine how well our service is working, how many customers we’ve had, and if and when we need to buy bigger and better hardware.

Types of Performance Counters

Performance counters can be ...

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