How Do You Monitor The CPU Utilization of a Process Using PowerShell?

Question

I\'m trying to write a PowerShell script to monitor % CPU utilization of a SQL Server process. I\'d like to record snapshots of this number every day so we can monitor it over t

Answer 1

Have you tryed Get-Counter ?

PS PS:\> Get-Counter "\Processus(iexplor*)\% temps processeur"

Timestamp                 CounterSamples
---------                 --------------
17/07/2012 22:39:25       \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#8)\% temps processeur :
                          1,5568026751287

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#7)\% temps processeur :
                          4,6704080253861

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#6)\% temps processeur :
                          0

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#5)\% temps processeur :
                          4,6704080253861

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#4)\% temps processeur :
                          0

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#3)\% temps processeur :
                          0

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#2)\% temps processeur :
                          0

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore#1)\% temps processeur :
                          1,5568026751287

                          \\jpbhpp2\processus(iexplore)\% temps processeur :
                          0

Be careful it depend on you locale test :

PS PS:\> Get-Counter -ListSet * | where {$_.CounterSetName -contains "processus"}