How can I add a performance counter to an category i have already created

Question

Hi

I have created a PerformanceCounterCategory like below

var category = PerformanceCounterCategory.Create("MyCat", "Cat Help", PerformanceCounterCategoryType.SingleInstance, "MyCounter", "Counter Help);

Now i would like to add a new counter to the category to monitor another item but i can't find the api call to do it.

Any Ideas?

Answer 1

PerformanceCounter lCounter = new PerformanceCounter(Category, CounterName, 
                                                     false);
lCounter.MachineName = ".";

Answer 2

I did a research on this a while back and it doesn't seem to be possible to add counters to an existing category, what you would have to do it to recreate the same category with addition of the new counter.