The Performance Counter target is used to simply increment a performance counter

It has these properties that can be configured:

• Name - Defaults to PerfCounterTarget
• LoggingMode - Defines which mode to use for the target; Synchronous, Buffered, or Asynchronous.  The default is Synchronous.
• MessageFormat - What to output in the log.  See the Message Format topic for more information.
• DateFormat - The date format for the %LogTime% variable in the MessageFormat. See the Date Format topic for more information.
• MinimumLevel - The minimum logging level to log a message.
• AssemblyNameFilter - If specified, only log for a specific assembly name.  See the Filtering topic.
• NamespaceFilter - If specified, only log for a specific namespace.  See the Filtering topic.
• ClassNameFilter - If specified, only log for a specific class name.  See the Filtering topic.
• MethodNameFilter - If specified, only log for a specific method name.  See the Filtering topic.
• ThreadNameFilter - If specified, logging will only occur for the thread id or thread name specified. See the Filtering topic.
• UserNameFilter - If specified, logging will only occur for the specific user name.  See the Filtering topic.
• MachineNameFilter - If specified, logging will only occur for the specific machine name.  See the Filtering topic.
• BufferSize -  When a logging target has a Mode of Buffered, this is how often messages are committed.  See the Buffered Logging topic.
• CounterName - The name of the performance counter
• Category - The category of the performance counter
• Type - The type of the performance counter
• Instance - The instance name of the performance counter

 

//Example runtime configuration, can also use log.config, app.config, or web.config
Log.ResetConfiguration();  
PerfCounterTarget target = new PerfCounterTarget();   
target.CounterName = "ABC Counter";
target.Category = "ABC Category";
target.Type = PerformanceCounterType.NumberOfItems32;
target.Instance = "instance";
Log.Config.Targets.Add(target);

Log.Debug("This is a test");