HardwareCounter

Describes the configuration to enable the hardware counters. The hardware counter definition specifies which counters, events, and sampled counters to enable.

Element Hierarchy

• <WindowsPerformanceRecorder>
  • <Profiles>
    • <HardwareCounter>
    • <Profile>
      • <Collectors>
        • <HardwareCounterId>
          • <HardwareCounter>

Syntax

<HardwareCounter Id   = IdType
                Base = string>

  <!-- Child elements -->
  Counters,
  Events,
  SampledCounters

</HardwareCounter>

Attributes and Elements

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Data type	Required	Default
Id	Uniquely identifies the system provider.	String that must have at least one character and cannot contain colons (:) or spaces.	Yes
Base	Indicates the base of the system provider. Derived providers have all the attributes of the base provider by default. These can be overridden by explicitly specifying them in the derived provider.	string	No

Child Elements

Element	Description	Requirement
Counters	Represents a collection of counters.	Optional.
Events	Represents a collection of events.	Optional.
SampledCounters	Represents a collection of sampled counters.	Optional.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
Profiles	Represents a collection of collectors, providers, and profiles.
SystemCollectorId	Represents a system collector identifier.

Example

<HardwareCounter Id="PerfWorkloads">
    <Counters>
        <Counter Value="TotalCycles"/>
        <Counter Value="InstructionRetired" />
    </Counters>
    <Events>
       <Event Value="CSwitch"/>
    </Events>
    <SampledCounters>
        <SampledCounter Value="CacheMisses" Interval="65536" />
    </SampledCounters>
</HardwareCounter>

Related topics

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