HTTP Service Request Queues\CurrentQueueSize counter instance name

Question

I am currently looking to monitor the Current Queue Size counter and have been poking about in PowerShell via Get-Counter -Counter "\HTTP Service Request Queues(*)\CurrentQueueSize" which returns the values I am interested in.

The returned value are clearly organised by AppPool but I don't recognise one of them.

\\computername\http service request queues(defaultapppool)\currentqueuesize : 0
\\computername\http service request queues(---2)\currentqueuesize : 0

What is ---2 representing? I have run the command against other servers and they return similar results but a different number, I've seen a ---1,---42 and a few other different values.

Answer 1

I test the command in my server and it also responses different value of http service.

So we cannot figure out what they mean but the docs has explained this result.

However, some server applications may have unnamed Request Queues that cannot be matched to a performance counter instance ID.