A while ago I started a project of mine called PerformanceTweet. I published the proof of concept, but that was it - just a prototype that demonstrated the possible functionality of such an application. I decided to take the project a bit further, and here it comes - PerformanceTweet 2. The new application introduces new functionality, and that is:


* Two types of reports - selective (for general activity reports) and alert (to keep track of critical conditions).
* Now, not only the CPU and RAM activity indicators are sent, but also those of the system partition free space, the number of running processes, system uptime and the machine name.
* You can now select the indicators that should be reported. This means that if you don't want the machine name to be sent in the report tweet, you simply disable this option.
* Support for alerts. Now, you can set a critical indicator for one of the three parameters (CPU load, RAM load, system partition free space), and when the system reaches a critical indicator, a tweet report will be sent.


Also one of the major changes (at least from the developers side) is the fact that the application was rewritten completely in WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). This was more of an experiment and I wanted to create a better user interface for the application.

A minor change, but not less important is the fact that I reduced to the minimum the number of extra characters in the tweet. Probably, when a user reads performance tweets for his machine, the processor model will be completely unnecesary, since the user knows where he is running the application. Now, I introduced one to two letter labels for various indicators. So, for example you have this tweet:



Seems confusing at first, but in fact there is nothing special. Here is the decrypted message:

C: - This is the CPU load for the machine. For this specific moment it was 14.16035%.
R: - This is the RAM load, and it was 68% for the specific moment.
H: - This indicator shows the free space on the system partition, which is equal to 63,868 MB at the specific moment.
RP: - The number of currently running (active) processes on the machine and that would be 88 in this case.
SU: - System uptime for the machine, which would be 23 hours, 18 minutes and 37 seconds at the moment.
M: - The machine name where the program is running, and this is obviously my computer - DENNIS-PC.

Now, I introduced these labels to reduce the overall number of characters posted, because as you know, there is a 140-character limit for a single tweet.

The main application UI looks like this:



System requirements:
Windows XP/Vista/7
.NET Framework 3.5 installed

You can download the application here:
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Any feedback (comments, suggestions, criticism) is highly appreciated.