Performance Monitor - Histogram Report View

The Windows Performance Monitor is a performance monitoring tool, which comes along with the windows operating system. The Performance Monitor tool provides various performance counters and factors which can be used to analyze and determine the performance of a system on a whole or that of a specific process over a specific period of me.

The Performance Monitor displays the details captured by the counter is different formats like Line Graph, Histogram and a Detailed Report view.

To change the output view to Histogram view, click on the report menu and select the Histogram bar as below.

The Histogram view is a good option when you want to clearly identify spikes in the counter, the histogram view clearly shows the spikes in the counter output and can be used to accurately measure the difference in spike between various scenarios.