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System Monitor
Understanding how your server is performing can be invaluable when troubleshooting problems
and is useful in effective management of your systems such as capacity planning. This chapter
covers when to use System Monitor and how to get the most from monitoring to determine how
your server is performing. Deciding what data to gather is the first step; interpreting the data is the
next step in resolving an issue before putting a fix in place. At the end of this chapter, you should
expect to better understand how to:
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Analyze a performance problem
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Proactively monitor server resource usage
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Apply best practices when using SystemMonitor
Familiarizing yourself with the tools and your system's regular workload means that you're able
to differentiate between the usual creaks and groans of your server and an actual performance
problem. Performance tuning is a science. Getting to the root cause is a journey that can be long and
arduous, but if you're comfortable with the tools and familiar with your environment, it should be
an enjoyable and interesting challenge.
Why Might I Need System Monitor?
In almost all application performance-related problems, a decent problem description, the
Windows event logs, and System Monitor will provide sufficient data to allow you to eliminate
or incriminate many components of the overall software and hardware solution. Usually, when we
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