About 2 years ago I blogged about the possibility to collect performance counter data as part of your Application Insights telemetry. If you missed the original post, first have a quick read here and then come back.
Back?
As mentioned in the original post, to be able to collect this performance data, the Application Pool user needs to be added to both the Performance Monitor Users and Performance Log Users group. Although I updated our internal wiki to emphasize this, I still noticed that most developers forget to do this with no collected data as a result. (Who reads documentation anyway?)
So let’s do what any developers does in this case, let’s automate the problem away…
I created a small tool that can be executed on the IIS web server. It goes through all the application pools, extracts the corresponding user and add it to the 2 groups as mentioned above.
I think the code is quite self-explanatory. Here is the part where I read out the application pools:
And here I add the application pool user to the correct groups:
Feel free to use it for your own purposes.
Remark: If your server is using other localization settings, you have to update the tool as the group names will be different. I’ve added a (commented out) example in Dutch as part of the code.