Windows performance registry

The Windows performance register is a virtual registry hive that contains performance metrics from a number of installed providers. All the communication with the performance registry is done via the remote registry service.

The following monitors can use the Windows performance registry

• Windows performance monitor
• CPU monitor
• Memory monitor
• Swap size monitor
• Bandwidth monitor
• Disk monitor

All monitors, except the Windows performance monitor, can be forced to use WMI, by checking Use WMI checkbox in the Object property page.

Subtopics

• How to verify that KNM have access to remote registry service
• Memory leaks in remoteregistry service on monitored machine
• Caching of counters

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