System Monitoring Components How-to Topics 

The following lists include links to the How-to pages found in the documentation for system monitoring components.

Performance Counter Components

• How to: Add and Remove Performance Counter Instances

• How to: Configure PerformanceCounter Component Instances

• How to: Create Custom Performance Counters

• How to: Create Performance Counter Categories

• How to: Create PerformanceCounter Component Instances

• How to: Delete Performance Counter Categories

• How to: Determine If Counters and Categories Exist

• How to: Retrieve Calculated Performance Counter Values

• How to: Retrieve Lists of Counters and Categories

• How to: Retrieve Performance Counter Samples

• How to: Retrieve Raw Performance Counter Values

• How to: Write Values to Performance Counters

Event Log Components

• How to: Add Your Application as a Source of Event Log Entries

• How to: Clear Event Logs

• How to: Configure EventLog Component Instances

• How to: Create and Remove Custom Event Logs

• How to: Create EventLog Component Instances

• How to: Delete Event Logs

• How to: Determine If an Event Source Exists

• How to: Determine If Specific Event Logs Exist

• How to: Handle the EntryWritten Event

• How to: Read Event Log Entries

• How to: Remove an Event Source

• How to: Write Entries to Event Logs

Windows Services

• How to: Create ServiceController Component Instances

• How to: Perform Administrative Tasks on Services

• How to: Retrieve Lists of Services

Windows Processes

• How to: Bind to Existing Processes

• How to: Create Process Components

• How to: Determine If a Process Has Exited

• How to: Determine If a Process Is Responding

• How to: Investigate Libraries Loaded by Processes

• How to: Investigate Memory Usage for Processes

• How to: Investigate Thread Usage for Processes

• How to: Refresh Process Component Properties

• How to: Specify Processes

• How to: Stop Processes

• How to: View Running Processes

• How to: Wait for Processes to Complete Actions

See Also

Other Resources

Using System Monitoring Components