PARCmobile - Monitoring Concurrent Users

Seeing the Number of Active User Sessions on IIS Site with the Performance Monitor Tool

1. Press Windows + R button. Type perfmon and hit the Enter button.
2. Now, you have to add the relevant counters for seeing the number of active user sessions. To do it, click on the green “+” button on the toolbar.
3. Find the Web Service group. Expand it. You will see a list of available counters. For this tutorial, we will be utilizing the following ones:
   1. Current Anonymous Users
   2. Current Non-Anonymous Users
   3. Current Connections
4. Choose your desired counter. Select your IIS website in the field of Instances of selected objects. Click on the Add>> button. The counter will be added instantly.
5. Do the same thing for all the required counters. Click on the OK button.
6. Now, you will see a variety of real-time information related to the active user sessions in the Performance Manager console. You will see the counters that you had added in the bottom pane.

The Performance Monitor tool allows you to add your custom counters to the console. You can save them in a different view for later usage.