Using Performance Monitor counter IDs instead of the counter names - 2

Question

Hello,

As you already may know each Performance Monitor counter has the corresponding ID which you can find in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009\Counter

So theoretically we can get the counter value by typing

Get-Counter -Counter "\2\10" instead of

Get-Counter -Counter "\System\File Read Operations/sec" - and it does work:

But I don't understand why other counters may not be read by such method:

Get-Counter -Counter "\System\File Read Operations/sec"

What's wrong with the second query?

Here's one more example:

Thank you in advance,
Michael

Answer 1

Hi,

According to the help documentation, the -counter parameter uses counter names, not IDs. It doesn't seem to support IDs well. The following link gives a way to get local counter names from IDs
https://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/07/19/querying-performance-counters-from-powershell/

Best Regards，
Ian Xue

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Answer 2

Hi IanXue-MSFT,

Sorry for the delay. Thank you for yor help!

It's really weird that some of the IDs do really work in the Get-Counter. In computers some feature usually either works or does not work, but not 50/50...

Regards,
Michael