Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and performance management.

The services offered by PCP are especially attractive for those tackling harder system-level performance problems. For example this may involve a transient performance degradation, or correlating end-user quality of service with platform activity, or diagnosing some complex interaction between resource demands on a single system, or management of performance on large systems with lots of "moving parts".

The distributed PCP architecture makes it especially useful for those seeking centralized monitoring of distributed processing (e.g. in a cluster or webserver farm environment), especially where a large number of hosts are involved.