Performance Counters in the .NET Framework

The Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a set of performance counters that you can use to track the performance of an application. This section provides a list of performance counters you can find in the Performance console. For more information on the Performance console, see the Windows Help.

In This Section

• Runtime Profiling
  Provides an overview of the tools you can use to gather performance data about an application.

• Exception Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters that provide information about the exceptions thrown by an application.

• Interop Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters provide information about an application's interaction with COM components, COM+ services, and external type libraries.

• JIT Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters that provide information about code that has been just-in-time (JIT) compiled.

• Loading Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters that provide information about assemblies, classes, and application domains that are loaded.

• Lock and Thread Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters provide information about managed locks and threads that an application uses.

• Memory Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters provide information about the garbage collector.

• Networking Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters that provide information about data that an application sends and receives over the network.

• Security Performance Counters
  Describes the performance counters that provide information about the security checks that the common language runtime performs for an application.

• Performance Counters and In-Process Side-By-Side Applications
  Describes the registry setting that disambiguates multiple runtimes that may be loaded by an in-process side-by-side application.

Related Sections

• Enabling Profiling
  Describes how to set environment variables to connect a .NET Framework application to a profiler.