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Perfmon:Memory no data even though local performance monitor displaying memory stats for Windows 2003 Server

rainhailrob
Path Finder

I have a Windows 2003 Server that is able to report memory stats when running the Windows performance monitor locally on the server. Unfortunately I do not see any data in Splunk for memory for this particular system. All of the other Windows 2003 Servers are displaying memory stats.

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linu1988
Champion

go to perfmon, check if the counters are present or not. Write the exact names with spaces, or check with my earlier comment restoring the perfmon counters if missing

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

Based on the error, this post,

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/25644/perfmon-no-longer-working

and some google...

Try verifying that the counter is enabled, and

%Committed Bytes In Use

instead of

% Committed Bytes In Use

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rainhailrob
Path Finder

splunkd.log
ERROR ExecProcessor - message from ""c:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-perfmon.exe"" splunk-perfmon - Unable to add counter '\Memory(*)\% Committed Bytes In Use' error 0xc0000bb9\n

ERROR ExecProcessor - message from ""c:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-perfmon.exe"" splunk-perfmon - Unable to add counter '\Memory(*)\Available MBytes' error 0xc0000bb9\n

ERROR ExecProcessor - message from ""c:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-perfmon.exe"" splunk-perfmon - Unable to add counter '\Memory(*)\Committed Bytes' error 0xc0000bb9\n

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

In case you have not checked, are there errors for this input in the splunkd logs?

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rainhailrob
Path Finder

BenjaminWyatt:

inputs.conf snippet...

Memory

[perfmon://Memory]
counters = % Committed Bytes In Use;Available MBytes;Committed Bytes
disabled = 0
interval = 300
object = Memory
_TCP_ROUTING = mysplunkindexers
index = myindexname

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linu1988
Champion

Please check if the memory object is mentioned properly. Or it may also be possible the perfmon is corrupt and it is not present for monitoring. Refresh your performance counters.

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BenjaminWyatt
Communicator

Do you have Splunk configured to monitor your Memory perfmon counter in inputs.conf or perfmon.conf (depending on your Splunk version)? If so, can you post the relevant configuration stanza?

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