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Performance Counters in the .NET Framework

.NET Framework 4.5

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The Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a set of performance counters that you can use to track the performance of an application. This section provides a list of performance counters you can find in the Performance console. For more information on the Performance console, see the Windows Help.

In This Section

Runtime Profiling: Provides an overview of the tools you can use to gather performance data about an application.
Exception Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters that provide information about the exceptions thrown by an application.
Interop Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters provide information about an application's interaction with COM components, COM+ services, and external type libraries.
JIT Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters that provide information about code that has been just-in-time (JIT) compiled.
Loading Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters that provide information about assemblies, classes, and application domains that are loaded.
Lock and Thread Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters provide information about managed locks and threads that an application uses.
Memory Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters provide information about the garbage collector.
Networking Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters that provide information about data that an application sends and receives over the network.
Security Performance Counters: Describes the performance counters that provide information about the security checks that the common language runtime performs for an application.
Performance Counters and In-Process Side-By-Side Applications: Describes the registry setting that disambiguates multiple runtimes that may be loaded by an in-process side-by-side application.

Related Sections

Enabling Profiling: Describes how to set environment variables to connect a .NET Framework application to a profiler.

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