Event ID 2003 — IIS W3SVC Performance Counter Availability
Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2
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The Internet Information Services (IIS) World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) collects HTTP-specific performance counters for Web sites. The W3SVC initializes the counters and receives them from HTTP.sys, the protocol listener for HTTP. If W3SVC is not available, HTTP performance counter data cannot be gathered.
Event Details
| Product: | Internet Information Services |
| ID: | 2003 |
| Source: | Microsoft-Windows-IIS-W3SVC-PerfCounters |
| Version: | 7.5 |
| Symbolic Name: | W3_W3SVC_REFRESH_TAKING_TOO_LONG_STOPPING_LOGGING |
| Message: | It has taken too long to refresh the W3SVC counters, the stale counters are being used instead. This is the second message within the past %1 (hours, minutes, seconds). No more stale counter messages will be logged for this client session until the time limit expires. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=538. |
Resolve
Restart W3SVC
If Web sites require updated performance counters, the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) must be restarted.
To perform this procedure, you must have membership in Administrators, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.
To restart the W3SVC:
- Open an elevated Command Prompt window. Click Start, point to All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
- At the command prompt, type NET STOP W3SVC.
- At the command prompt, type NET START W3SVC.
Verify
To perform this procedure, you must have membership in Administrators, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.
To verify that a performance counter is functioning correctly:
Click Start, Administrative Tools, Server Manager.
In the left pane of Server Manager, expand Diagnostics, then expand Reliability and Performance.
Expand Monitoring Tools, then click Performance Monitor. The Performance Monitor window appears in the middle pane.
In the Performance Monitor toolbar, click the Add icon (the green plus sign.) The Add Counters screen appears.
Under Available counters, select the counter you want to verify.
On the bottom of the screen, click Add. In the right pane, the counter appears in the Added counters window.
Click OK.
At the bottom of the screen, the name of the counter should be visible in the Counter field.
Note: If data for the counter does not appear, check the Application log for Event ID 2006 with source IIS-W3SVC-PerfCounters. You may receive this error if there is no data available for the counter.