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Note
titlePrerequisites:

To use this feature, the load agent must:

  • Be a Windows load agent. To See here to add monitors for a load agent that runs on Linux, see here.
  • Have PerfMon agent running on default port 49996

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When at least one load agent has monitoring enabled, the Runtime dashboard will create a Load agents performance graph called Load agents will be created in the Runtime dashboard.

The table below describes the Perfmon performance counters that will be added for each load agent with monitoring enabled:

CategoryCounterInstanceDescription
Processor% Processor Time_Total

The CPU utilization. It is recommended to keep it below 90% during test runs.

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titleThresholds

The warning threshold is set to 85, and the critical threshold is set to 90


MemoryAvailable MBytes
The amount of free memory.
PhysicalDisk% Disk Time_TotalThe disk usage. Primarily important for embedded SQL databases.
Network InterfacePackets/sec{Network Interface Name}The network utilization.

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Note

If you wish to use a different set of performance counters, you can manually create a Windows server monitor as described here.

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If you are using Windows AWS cloud templates or Azure cloud templates, you can enable monitoring on the template, and performance counters will be created for the cloud agents during the test.

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