PerformanceCounterTarget Class

public class PerformanceCounterTarget : Target, 
	IInstallable

Public Class PerformanceCounterTarget
	Inherits Target
	Implements IInstallable

Dim instance As PerformanceCounterTarget

type PerformanceCounterTarget =  
    class
        inherit Target
        interface IInstallable
    end

 1<?xml version="1.0" ?>
 2<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
 3      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 4    <targets>
 5        <target name="pc" xsi:type="PerfCounter" categoryName="My category" 
 6                counterName="My counter" counterType="NumberOfItems32" instanceName="myInstance" />
 7    </targets>
 8
 9    <rules>
10        <logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="pc" />
11    </rules>
12</nlog>

 1using System;
 2
 3using NLog;
 4using NLog.Targets;
 5using NLog.Win32.Targets;
 6using System.Diagnostics;
 7
 8class Example
 9{
10    static void Main(string[] args)
11    {
12        PerfCounterTarget target = new PerfCounterTarget();
13        target.AutoCreate = true;
14        target.CategoryName = "My category";
15        target.CounterName = "My counter";
16        target.CounterType = PerformanceCounterType.NumberOfItems32;
17        target.InstanceName = "My instance";
18
19        NLog.Config.SimpleConfigurator.ConfigureForTargetLogging(target, LogLevel.Debug);
20
21        Logger logger = LogManager.GetLogger("Example");
22        logger.Debug("log message");
23    }
24}