Overview

    For example:

    or

    For more information on using this key or its English-only equivalent perf_counter_en, see Windows-specific item keys.

    In order to get a full list of performance counters available for monitoring, you may run:

    Numeric representation

    Windows maintains numeric representations (indexes) for object and performance counter names. Zabbix supports these numeric representations as parameters to the perf_counter, perf_counter_en item keys and in PerfCounter, PerfCounterEn configuration parameters.

    However, it’s not recommended to use them unless you can guarantee your numeric indexes map to correct strings on specific hosts. If you need to create portable items that work across different hosts with various localized Windows versions, you can use the perf_counter_en key or PerfCounterEn configuration parameter which allow to use English names regardless of system locale.

    To find out the numeric equivalents, run regedit, then find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009.

    The registry entry contains information like this:

    1. 1
    3. 2
    4. 4
    5. Memory
    6. 6
    7. % Processor Time
    8. 10
    9. File Read Operations/sec
    11. 14
    12. File Control Operations/sec
    13. 16
    14. File Read Bytes/sec
    15. 18
    16. File Write Bytes/sec
    17. ....

    Then you can use these numbers to represent the path in numbers:

      Performance counter parameters

      You can deploy some PerfCounter parameters for the monitoring of Windows performance counters.

      For example, you can add these to the Zabbix agent configuration file:

      With such parameters in place, you can then simply use UserPerfCounter1 or UserPerfCounter2 as the keys for creating the respective items.