Service Fabric and Application Insights Performance Counters

Question

Where can I find a list of performance counter names to be used with a Service Fabric cluster? There is a list published here, but I would need the actual exact names to be used in the cluster's ARM template. Currently I have the following configuration in the template :

"WadCfg": {
        "DiagnosticMonitorConfiguration": {
          "overallQuotaInMB": "1000",
          "sinks": "applicationInsights",
          "DiagnosticInfrastructureLogs": {},
          "PerformanceCounters": {
            "PerformanceCounterConfiguration": [
              {
                "counterSpecifier": "\\Processor(_Total)\\% Processor Time",
                "sampleRate": "PT3M"
              },
              {
                "counterSpecifier": "\\Memory\\Available MBytes",
                "sampleRate": "PT3M"
              }
            ]
          }

But only the "Memory\Available MBytes" actually shows up in Application Insights.

Alex AIT Alex AIT · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-17T20:00:19

Those counters are the actual windows performance counters. So you just need to look for them. Some examples:

http://techgenix.com/Key-Performance-Monitor-Counters/

http://www.appadmintools.com/documents/windows-performance-counters-explained/

Judging by all this information, the performance counters all follow the same pattern:

first column\second column
\\Processor(_Total)\\% Processor Time
\\Memory\\Available MBytes
\\Network Interface(*)\\Bytes Received/sec
...

You might be able to find some more counters by running typeperf directly on the service fabric VM and capturing the output. You can also run it locally to get an idea of what is possible.

http://defaultreasoning.com/2009/06/25/list-all-performance-counters-on-a-windows-computer-and-export-it-to-a-file/

 C:>TypePerf.exe –q > counters.txt

Service Fabric and Application Insights Performance Counters

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