PerformanceCounterCategoryType Enum

Definition

Namespace:

System.Diagnostics

Assembly:

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.dll

Package:

System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter v9.0.0-rc.2.24473.5

Source:

PerformanceCounterCategoryType.cs

Indicates whether the performance counter category can have multiple instances.

public enum class PerformanceCounterCategoryType

public enum PerformanceCounterCategoryType

type PerformanceCounterCategoryType = 

Public Enum PerformanceCounterCategoryType

Inheritance

Object

ValueType

Enum

PerformanceCounterCategoryType

Fields

Name	Value	Description
Unknown	-1	The instance functionality for the performance counter category is unknown.
SingleInstance	0	The performance counter category can have only a single instance.
MultiInstance	1	The performance counter category can have multiple instances.

Remarks

There are two types of performance counter categories: single-instance and multi-instance. By default, a category is single-instance when it is created and becomes multi-instance when another instance is added. Categories are created when an application is set up, and instances are added at run time. In the .NET Framework version 1.0 and version 1.1, it is not necessary to know whether a performance counter category is multi-instance or single-instance. In the .NET Framework version 2.0, the PerformanceCounterCategoryType enumeration is used to indicate whether a performance counter can have multiple instances.