After a Powershell session at SQL Saturday (Phoenix #131) this weekend, I’m now suddenly on the lookout for handy powershell commands. The first one lets you see the number of Active* sessions on your IIS site (* because HTTP is stateless, it’s really the number of connections that have been opened recently – not what’s currently active, which is likely next to zero. I tried browsing around on a test site and it showed only my one user connected).
To get the currently active user count, here’s the powershell:
# Ensure you use the server's actual name, not LOCALHOST, which won't work $Servername = "Your Server Name" $Sitename = "Name of your IIS Site" Get-Counter "\\$ServerName\web service($SiteName)\current connections"