Performance monitor unrealible?

Question

Hi,

I have a WCF service hosted in IIS7, at startup I run the following code :

if ((_UsePerformanceCounters = bool.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UsePerformanceCounters"])))
    {
        col = new CounterCreationDataCollection();
        counter = new CounterCreationData(_acountOfCurrentUsersCounterName, "Amount of current users", PerformanceCounterType.NumberOfItemsHEX32);
        col.Add(counter);

        if (PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(_categoryName))
            PerformanceCounterCategory.Delete(_categoryName);

        if (!PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(_categoryName))
            category = PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(_categoryName, "MyApp Application Service Counters", PerformanceCounterCategoryType.MultiInstance, col);
        else
            Console.WriteLine("Counter already exists");

        if (PerformanceCounterCategory.CounterExists(_acountOfCurrentUsersCounterName, _categoryName))
            _amountOfCurrentUsers = new PerformanceCounter(_categoryName, _acountOfCurrentUsersCounterName, HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~"), false);
    }

I can see that the category is deleted and created but it do still not show up in the Performans Monitor?

Id did showed up once but even when running delete on it it was never removed? After a long shutdown of the computer it however disappeared?

Is Performance Monitor unrealible? Or what am I doing wrong? Is there maby other better softwares for this task?

BestRegards

Answer 1

Looks like it is a refresh issue. You should be able to see the changes, if you kill and start Perfmon again.