Using System Monitoring Components 

System monitoring components such as the PerformanceCounter component, the EventLog component, and the ServiceController component allow you to monitor and interact with a variety of system resources. You can use these component instances to interact with Windows performance counters, event logs, and long-running services.

In This Section

• System Monitoring Components How-to Topics
  Provides links to all how-to topics found in the conceptual documentation for programming with system monitoring components.

• Monitoring Performance Thresholds
  Provides basic information on monitoring Microsoft Windows performance thresholds.

• Logging Application, Server, and Security Events
  Provides additional information on monitoring Windows event logs by reading information from and writing information to them.

• Monitoring Windows Services
  Provides information on how to monitor existing Windows services.

• Monitoring and Managing Windows Processes
  Explains the process of creating a component to automate administrative tasks for Windows processes.

Related Sections

• Programming with Components
  Presents a high-level overview of component programming and authoring.