“Access to the registry key 'Global' is denied” when accessing performance counters

Question

I\'m attempting to read some performance counters from my ASP.NET application. When I do, I get the error \"Access to the registry key \'Global\' is denied.\"

I have

Answer 1

In my case I added the correct Application pool (the one I used for my web site) to Performance Users and Log, but it was still giving me the issue. What I did was to

• stop my application pool
• switch my web site so it uses DefaultAppPool
• restarted the web site
• switched web site back to correct app pool (which is stopped)
• started app pool
• restarted the web site