New Post: How to Include all counters in report?
Hi, I have been using the template 'Microsoft SQL server 2008 /R2' but wanted to add a few extra counters which I did in Perfmon. When I run the analysis on the file I select the original threshold...
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Project DescriptionEver have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a powerful tool that reads...
View ArticleNew Post: How to Include all counters in report?
Processor Queue Length is used in some of the existing analyses, so it is likely not showing it separately because of that. The best option is to add the counter path to the threshold file as its own...
View ArticleNew Post: PAL v2.4 / v2.5 bug with MS Charts SaveImage? - Help!
Hi Clint, we have PAL v2.4 installed on 12 SQL servers (ranging from Dell to HP to IBM and all running Windows 2008 R2 SP1). All the servers are scheduled to generate a report everyday just after...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: PAL v2.5 - Cannot bind parameter 'ErrorAction' [25552]
I was processing a counter log generated using the Microsoft SQL2008 / R2 threshold file.Although the threshold file was exported from PAL I received numerouse "Missing counters in log" warnings. It...
View ArticleCreated Unassigned: Windos 2008 R2 log generates Stop-Job using PAL 2.5 beta...
Received the following message while processing perfmon log using the 2.5 Beta version of PAL.Stop-Job : Cannot bind parameter 'ErrorAction'. Cannot convert value "Ignore" to type...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: Missing counters in log [25449]
When PAL 2.4 processes my .blg log, on some counters it displays "[Done - Missing counters in log]" in yellow text. For eample, when it hits "Network Interface % Network Utilization". I'm not...
View ArticleCreated Unassigned: Index operation failed [25646]
I've used SQLDiag to gather information from a production SQL server and am attempting to use PAL to generate the reports but am receiving the following error:"Index operation failed; the array index...
View ArticleNew Post: PAL V2.4 on Windows Server 2003
Hi, Has PAL been confirmed to run properly on Windows Server 2003? I have tried running a .csv perfmon file and it gets to analysis progress of 0% and seems to list a number of Perfmon counters its...
View ArticleNew Post: PAL V2.4 on Windows Server 2003
Have now found if I use 1 thread it processes but then Errors at the end with Cannot covert value "(PDH-CSV 4.0) (AUS Eastern Standard Time)(-600)" to type "System.DateTime". Error: "String was not a...
View ArticleNew Post: Automating PAL report generation
Hi - Can I confirm where the Batch file is meant to be ? I have gone to C:\temp and could not find one - have checked C:\Program Files\PAL\PAL\ also and no luck. Thanks Gavin
View ArticleNew Post: Retreive Logs from SQL Server
I'd like to retrieve/analyse logs from SQL Server, as well....
View ArticleCreated Unassigned: does not contain a method [25688]
Method invocation failed because [System.Double] does not contain a methodnamed 'GetUpperBound'.At C:\Program Files\PAL\PAL\PAL.ps1:3470 char:73+ $Trend = $(ConvertToDataType...
View ArticleNew Post: Why PAL reports is missing graphs
I have more than 20 counters in Perfmon data collection set. However my PAL report lists Memory Available MBytes and 3 other statistics. Why other statistics are missing?
View ArticleCreated Unassigned: Ability to compare [25709]
Hello,First of all, thanks for packing up this great tool! It really helps me in my job.I'm curious if there's a change of a comparison module that can compare files from two systems under similar...
View ArticleNew Post: thread file Exchange2007-MBX-TechNet.xml
Hello , I am trying to parse log from exchange 2007 but I am getting the following error message , I am using thread file Exchange2007-MBX-TechNet.xml > I tired on several work stations and same...
View ArticleNew Post: PAL v2.4 / v2.5 bug with MS Charts SaveImage? - Help!
The SaveImage function most often fails when the output directory is too long. The SaveImage function is part of the Microsoft Chart Controls and is limited on the length of the path to the output file...
View ArticleNew Post: PAL V2.4 on Windows Server 2003
I don't know the cause to this. PAL 2.0 and later have not been tested on Windows Server 2003. Sorry.
View ArticleNew Post: Automating PAL report generation
No, sorry. The batch file is hard coded to go to your %temp% directory. There is no other place it should be at. An example of the last on created on my system is at...
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