What is the best configuration for counters logs in Windows?

Question

I am going to program a little application for check any bottlenecks which might be in my Windows systems. So that, I think to use Performance Monitor to collect data from Disk, memory, network and CPU counters and save these data in a file .csv
Now I am wondering: what is the best choice for collect data?
My idea is to collect anything in one file, with all data log of counters, every 15 seconds, becouse a shorter detection might loads uselessly the system.

Answer 1

At work I have used Performance Monitor by Hexagora (its freeware) - don't know if you can record the result however as I have only ever used the graphical representations.

I have also used the Windows Performance Monitor, outputting .csv files (as you are doing), but if you are collecting alot of data I find it very messy.

A guide for best practice when monitoring performance from Microsoft is here. I often use this as a guide, hope this is helpful.