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Troubleshooting Team Foundation Server Performance Counters

Team Foundation Server provides a set of performance counters for monitoring the performance of your servers. Use the information in this topic to help solve any problems that you have viewing the performance counters.

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Cannot View Performance Counters

Symptom:   I cannot find an Administrative Tools menu or the Performance window, or when I try to open the Performance window, I receive an error.

Possible Causes:

The user account you are using is not a member of the Administrators group on the local computer. Log on to the computer by using an account that has administrative permissions, or use the RunAs command-line tool to run performance counters with the appropriate permissions. For more information, see the "RunAs" topic (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=60977) and How to: View Team Foundation Server Performance Counters.

Symptom:   I cannot find the appropriate performance counters in the Performance window.

Possible Causes:

See Also

Concepts

Understanding Monitoring Tools for Team Foundation Server

Other Resources

Monitoring Team Foundation Server