

To complicate matters, the systems themselves were in the production environment, and since Process Monitor does have a (hefty) impact on system performance (and the logs it creates grows very large very quick) I couldn’t just start it before leaving for home, leaving it running until I came back to work the next morning. What was troublesome however, is that the issue I was looking into only occurred at night and I didn’t feel much for staying up late to fire off Process Monitor.


To look into what processes are doing in the background, I turn to Sysinternals’ Process Monitor – one of the tools I recommend to master as an IT consultant. When troubleshooting an issue for a client of mine, I was in need for some further debugging information.
