Windows Services

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibServices

Overview

This collector monitors Windows Services Status and States.

It queries Service Management to get 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.

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 Windows Service

These metrics refer to Windows Services.

Labels:

Label	Description
service	The service name

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
windows.service_state	running, stopped, start_pending, stop_pending, continue_pending, pause_pending, paused, unknown	state

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

Options

Option	Description	Default	Required
update every	Data collection frequency.	30	no

via File

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