Introduction ‘Plot Graph in PowerShell Console’:
Recently, I was working on my Twitter bot (https://twitter.com/WittyHumorBot) completely written in PowerShell, but part of which was automating multiple jobs that run continuously on my screen. I managed to write a script to set all PowerShell consoles automatically in a grid layout like in the below image
But I was not able to do that with taskmgr.exe in order to monitor performance bottlenecks and which was not at all customizable to my needs.
Features and Script:
So I decided to write a function that is customizable and can display a graph in a Powershell console which can also be set in an Automated grid layout ( Here is the Grid layout script and the blog post).
Also,
- I want to Color-code the output depending upon the Value of the Datapoint; Above/below some predefined thresholds
- Display custom information on X and Y-Axis labels
- A Graph in the console that is independent and fully customizable, not like Task Manager’s (no need to switch to Performance Tab) and,
- which could be easily used in any Powershell script to monitor performance on any defined parameter, which I see as the biggest benefit of the function.
- The function consumes data points, generated during script execution or Pre-stored data like from a file or database.
Following is the full script and here is the link to the Github Project, please feel free to contribute as I still see some possibilities of improvement.
Hope you’ll find the script useful and Thanks for reading.
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