# Cant monitor windows perfmon counter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-monitor-windows-perfmon-counter/210726>\
**Category:** Metrics\
**Created:** [December 5, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-monitor-windows-perfmon-counter/210726 "2019-12-05T14:03:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexandros888](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Alexandros888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandros888)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-monitor-windows-perfmon-counter/210726/1 "2019-12-05T14:03:09Z")

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Hello,

I have the following perfmon counter names (Bytes IN) and (Bytes IN/sec) that i want to monitor as the following image show:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/9/59372f8f36e4ebd16bda1e220aa6f45116068708.png)

My modules configuration in my windows.yml file is the following:

# Module: windows

# Docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.3/metricbeat-module-windows.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.3/metricbeat-module-windows.html)

- module: windows  
metricsets:

- module: windows  
metricsets:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/8/e8cdb56e10eeca36840fef4f635214ed7ac07e57.png)

when i just want to monitor the Bytes IN counter i can also see it in Kibana but when i also add the second counder (Bytes IN/sec) in the yaml file i can not see in Kibana neither of them.

Any ideas how to correct this?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Kerry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kerry/32/40330_2.png) [@Kerry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kerry)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-monitor-windows-perfmon-counter/210726/2 "2019-12-16T13:07:54Z")

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Hi, could you validate two things for me first:

1. Could you check that your YAML file is definitely formatted correctly. I can't tell 100% as the formatting on the YAML in the post is a little funky, and the other is a screenshot.

2. Does `Bytes IN/sec` work by itself?

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**Author:** ![Alexandros888](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Alexandros888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandros888)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-monitor-windows-perfmon-counter/210726/3 "2019-12-16T14:28:38Z")

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Hello Kerry,

I solved that issue by just applying spaces....so i used Bytes IN / sec instead of Bytes IN/sec ...crazy xaxa.... But thank you for your reply 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-monitor-windows-perfmon-counter/210726/4 "2020-01-13T14:28:47Z")

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