HardwareCounterId

Uniquely identifies the Hardware Counter.

Element Hierarchy

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

Syntax

<HardwareCounterId>

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

</HardwareCounterId>

Attributes and Elements

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Data type	Required	Default
Value	Uniquely identifies the hardware counter.	String that must have at least one character and cannot contain colons (:) or spaces.	Yes

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
Collectors	Represents a collection of system collector identifiers, event collector identifiers, and optionally heap event collector identifiers.

Remarks

For more information about authoring hardware counter definitions, see HardwareCounter.

Example

The following code example shows the section of a profile definition that contains this element.

<Profile Id="Example.Light.File" Name="Example" DetailLevel="Light" LoggingMode="File" Description="Example profile">
  <Collectors>
    <SystemCollectorId Value="WPRSystemCollector">
      <SystemProviderId Value="system-provider"/>
      <HardwareCounterId Value="PerfWorkloads"/>
    </SystemCollectorId>
…
  </Collectors>
</Profile>

Related topics

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