Tools to Analyzing Perfmon logs

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               Now that we talked about perfmon counters for SharePoint and project server in the last post, the other challenging task after collecting these counters was to analyze this data and make out some sense out of those huge log file.  There may be different ways analyze them by applying knowledge gained experience of such incidents, but not all the time we can rely on that when the counters are in large in number. The standard Perfmon interface tends to be messy when many counters are involved.
I have two recommendations:
1.      Manual PerfMon Analysis Workbook   -- When you want a tool that would give you quick overview of the server without having to delve through a thick report or through a cluttered perfmon diagram with lots of counters. 
2.      PAL  -  Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool  - A proper tool which prepares a beautiful report and graphs based on the counters and it also needs a threshold file for the counter/application we need detailed analysis.

PAL - Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool  - My favorite

This tool is all you need to complete your analysis. While you are looking to analyze SharePoint Counters and see how your server fares to the best practice results or a standard expected results of a well performing one, you need to feed the threshold file for SharePoint and the dependent threshold files as well, like for SharePoint server you may need a system overview, IIS, SQL thresholds as well as the counters we normally monitor for SharePoint server will also include IIS, process and system hardware related.
You can get a clue by looking at the sample report which this tool prepares at this URL

Manual PerfMon Analysis Workbook – You get detailed and latest update by visiting codeplex link provided above.
This tool  gives you an overview over lots of counters that are collected using perfmon. This release is workable. Too upload the data to the workbook: read the manual below:
Manual Perfmon Analysis Workbook.docx

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