Outside of this about your only other option is to just use another application for your activity reporting. To conclude, we saw the steps that our Support Techs follow to do CPU utilization analysis on EC2 Windows.Quite frankly if it's really a bug that's integrated into Task Manager then the answer is you most likely can't and just have to wait for the next update to role out.Īs far as fixing it yourself about the only options I have that may not even make a difference would be to reinstall Windows. Review the Process and Processor sections of the PAL Report to determine which processes are using the instance’s CPU.For HTML Report, select HTML Report, and then choose Next.For Output Folder, select an output directory for the PAL Report.Note: Processing all of the counter instances can be resource intensive. Select Process all of the counters in the counter log, and then choose Next.For OS, choose the latest Operating System version available from the list with a bit version that matches our instance. Review and answer the questions for each entry in the Questions section.Note: System Overview provides a general operating system performance analysis. For Title, choose System Overview, and then choose Next.For Performance Counter Log, enter the path to the Performance Monitor file, and then choose Next.Install PAL, launch the PAL Wizard, and then choose Next.PAL is a third-party tool that we can use to generate a report from our Performance Monitor file for a more in-depth analysis. Use Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) to generate a report for analysis Save and close, then click Finish finally.Next we must choose a location with at least 1 GiB of free space to store the data, and click Next.(Optional) Set Sample interval and Units to the preferred values.Repeat this step for adding further performance counters. And for Create data logs, select Performance Counter, then click Next.įor Available counters, select Process, % Processor Time.Īnd for Instances of selected object, select All instances.Next, open the context (right-click) menu for User Defined, and go to New, click on Data Collector Set.įor Name, we have to enter a name for the new data collector set.

Then open Performance Monitor, and expand Data Collector Sets.Firstly, we have to connect to our instance using RDP.To use Performance Monitor, follow these steps: Performance Monitor is a built-in Windows tool. We can use Performance Monitor and the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool for this analysis.

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