Monitoring Windows Server performance to a file

I would like to monitor a windows server's performance by polling the CPU/RAM/Network IO usage over a period of time every 1 minute and write these values to separate files depending on the monitored channel.

Is there any open source/free tool out there besides XPerf?

Solution 1:

You can use the PerfMon.exe tool that ships will all versions of windows and windows server.

• Run PERFMON.EXE.
• Right-click Data Collector Sets/User Defined.
• Click New/Data Collector Set.
• Name it. -Create from template or manually after you get the hang of it.
• Select a template like "system Performance".
• Confirm or modify the path to the file to be created. -
• Set the user id to use for the Run As.
• Click "Finish".
• right-click the newly created set and Start.
• Stop when you want and find the report in the selected location, typically: %systemdrive%\PerfLogs\Admin\User