Memory Statistics (Win)

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibMemory

Overview

This collector monitors swap and memory pool statistics on Windows systems.

It queries for the 'Memory' object from Perflib in order to gather the metrics.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

• windows

This collector only supports collecting metrics from a single instance of this integration.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

The collector automatically detects all of the metrics, no further configuration is required.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

Options

Option	Description	Default	Required
update every	Data collection frequency.	1	no

via File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:windows:PerflibMemory] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per System

These metrics refer to the entire system.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Description	Dimensions	Unit
mem.swap_iops	Swap Operations	read, write	operations/s
mem.swapio	Swap I/O	in, out	KiB/s
mem.system_pool_size	System Memory Pool	paged, non-paged	bytes
mem.system_pool_paged	Paged System Memory Pool	resident	bytes
mem.system_pool_allocs	System Pool Allocations	paged, non-paged	allocations/s
mem.system_page_table_entries	Unused page table entries.	free	pages
mem.committed	Committed Memory	committed, limit	bytes
mem.system_cache	System Cache Memory	cache, peak, resident	bytes
mem.page_lists	Memory Page Lists	free, modified, standby_core, standby_normal, standby_reserve	bytes
mem.system_code	System Code Memory	resident, total	bytes
mem.system_drivers	System Driver Memory	resident, total	bytes
mem.page_faults_breakdown	Memory Page Fault Breakdown	cache, demand_zero, transition, write_copies	faults/s
mem.transition_repurposed	Transition Pages Repurposed	repurposed	pages/s