Comments on: Open a blg file in Windows

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:21:47 +0000

Rediculous that through all the help files on how to create the damn files there is no details on how to read the things !!!!, I now need to find out how to read the .ETL files !!.

Thanks for this info though.

Dean

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:55:43 +0000

Glad I found your site, Google indexes it. Yes it was pretty confusing. First I found the disk icon, opened the file, then what? Wasn't clear to me that I have to then add the performance counters into the graph..

Thanks Microsoft, that's very intuitive...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:18:04 +0000

thx for the info, I spent many minutes trying to figure this out….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:46:01 +0000

Answered my own question:

Took advantage of WinXP relog.exe capabilites and transferred the file to a Winxp machine.

1) Go to the cmd prompt and get to the folder containing the file you want to change and type:

relog filname.blg -f CSV -o newfile.csv
2) transfer the file back to your Win2000 machine

Now you can view it in csv format.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:22:40 +0000

Does anyone know of a way to save the blg file in a csv format?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 01:54:13 +0000

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Hey thanks that saved me time with the BLG viewing i was all lost for a min.

Mitesh

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 03:12:00 +0000

Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 07:44:27 +0000

Thanks Dave, you spared me some time!
PS, here's the official way as specified in the MS helpfiles. (I prefer yours though!)

To use logged data

Open Performance.
Right-click the System Monitor details pane and click Properties.
Click the Source tab.
Under Data Source, click Log File, and type the path to the file or click Browse to browse for the log file you want.
Click Time Range. To specify the time range in the log file that you want to view, drag the bar or its handles for the appropriate starting and ending times.
Click the Data tab and click Add to open the Add Counters dialog box. The counters you selected during log configuration are shown. You can include all or some of these in your graph.
Notes

To open Performance, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Performance.
Unless you specifically want to monitor start-up events, you should exclude times that include such events from your time window because these temporary high values tend to skew overall performance results.
The button on the toolbar is disabled when you are viewing log data.
You can also view counter-log data by opening files that have been saved in comma-separated or tab-separated format using Microsoft Excel.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:34:54 +0000

Thanks Dave! Like you I spent many a minute trying to find out how to read log BLG files, but thanks to you I now can! Cheers and be lucky!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:51:00 +0000

If you opent the log file, and nothing seems to happen, it’s because you still have to specify what counters you want to view, by pressing the “+” icon.