Performance Monitor and Profiler are both graphical tools that I wouldn't recommend ever running directly against production machines. Instead, create Data Collector Sets and Server-side Trace from each of the tools respectively. These are command line equivalents of the tools that you can use to output to a file. That allows you to collect the data without running the GUI on the servers. You can then use the GUI software on a different machine to browse and aggregate the data.
And, if you're on 2008 or better, I'd strongly recommend extended events over trace/profiler. The events are more lightweight and the filtering mechanisms occur at data collection time, not after collecting the data. Makes a huge difference in the impact on a system. They're much safer.
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