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SSAS Data Collection: Collecting Perfmon for SSAS

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Applies to Windows7, Windows 2008/R2 and Vista

SQL Server all builds >= SQL 2005

Generally, for troubleshooting SSAS Issues, we recommend to collect below mentioned Perfmon Counters

- All Counters Related to SSAS (MSAS_ or MSOLP$)

For default instance SSAS Counter Name suffix with MSAS.n and for named instance it start with MSOLAP$Instance Name

- System, Process, Processor, Physical Disk, Logical Disk, Memory , Page File

· Got to Run & type Perfmon

· Under Data Collector Set, right click on User Defined and Click New Data Collector Set

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· Create New Data Collect Set and Give name as MSTrace & Select Create Manually, Click Next

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· Click on Add required counters (Sample Interval as 10 Seconds)

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· Here you can specify the Run as user which has Admin Access over box (in case you have logged with credential which is non admin)

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  • By default Location of Trace file is - %systemdrive%\PerfLogs\Admin\ but you can change it.

Right Click on Newly Created Trace – Mstrace and select Properties – In Properties under directory tab you can specify the location also you can schedule as per your requirement.

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Once you are done with that click OK and Run trace as shown below

 

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Reproduce the issue and collect traces, once you are done just stop traces and check for traces in location which you had provided in Properties.