Reference - default performance counters
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The following table lists the default counters that are pre-defined in the counters.xpc file and registered in Windows by default:
| 
 Counter name  | 
 Category  | 
 Description  | 
 Values written by  | 
| 
 Allocated memory in MB  | 
 Global  | 
 The size of memory allocated by the application in Megabytes.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Cache expired items/sec  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of expired cache items per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Cache removed items/sec  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of items removed from cache per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Cache underused items/sec  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of underused cache items per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Content page views/sec  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of content pages viewed per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 E-mails in queue  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of e-mails in the E-mail queue.  | 
 Application or Windows service*  | 
| 
 Error e-mails in queue  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of e-mails in the E-mail queue whose sending failed.  | 
 Application or Windows service*  | 
| 
 Errors  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of errors in event log since last application restart.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 File downloads/sec  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of files downloaded per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Non-page requests/sec  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of non-page requests per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 On-line users – total  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The total number of on-line users.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 On-line users – authenticated  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of authenticated on-line users.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 On-line users – anonymous  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of anonymous on-line users.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Pages not found/sec  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of not found pages (404 error) per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Pending requests/sec  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of pending page requests per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Robots.txt views/sec  | 
 Global and Sites  | 
 The number of robots.txt page requests per second. Important: For values to be written to this counter, IIS must be configured to handle .txt extensions. See Extensionless and custom URLs.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Running SQL queries  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of running SQL queries.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Running threads  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of running threads.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Scheduled tasks running  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of running scheduled tasks.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Scheduled tasks in queue  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of scheduled tasks in the queue.  | 
 Application or Windows service*  | 
| 
 System page views/sec  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of system pages viewed per second.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 Warnings  | 
 Global  | 
 The number of warnings in event log since the last application restart.  | 
 Application  | 
| 
 * The Windows service is used to write values to these counters only if it is installed and if the Use external service option is enabled in Settings -> System -> Health monitoring.  | 
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You can also define custom counters to monitor other system values.