Splunk® IT Service Intelligence

Entity Integrations Manual

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Windows data you can collect with ITSI

Collect metrics and log data with for Windows systems with a universal forwarder. You can use the data collection script or configure data collection agents manually. For more information, see these topics:

If you haven't seen the requirements yet, see Windows integration requirements for ITSI.

Metrics data

These are the host-identifying dimensions for each Windows host:

  • host
  • ip
  • os
  • os_version
  • entity_type

These are the metrics collected, the default counters, and each source type for Windows hosts:

Metric Counters Source type
[perfmon://CPU]
  •  % C1 Time
  •  % C2 Time
  •  % Idle Time
  •  % Processor Time
  •  % User Time
  •  % Privileged Time
  •  % Reserved Time
  •  % Interrupt Time
  • Interrupts/sec*
PerfmonMetrics:CPU
[perfmon://PhysicalDisk]
  •  % Disk Read Time
  •  % Disk Write Time
  • Avg. Disk Queue Length
  •  % Idle Time
  • Avg. Disk Bytes/Read*
  • Avg. Disk Bytes/Write*
PerfmonMetrics:PhysicalDisk
[perfmon://Network]
  • Bytes Received/sec
  • Bytes Sent/sec
  • Packets Received/sec
  • Packets Sent/sec
  • Packets Received Errors
  • Packets Outbound Errors
  • Current Bandwidth*
PerfmonMetrics:Network
[perfmon://Memory]
  • Cache Bytes
  •  % Committed Bytes In Use
  • Page Reads/sec
  • Pages Input/sec
  • Pages Output/sec
  • Committed Bytes
  • Available Bytes
  • Available MBytes*
PerfmonMetrics:Memory
[perfmon://System]
  • Processor Queue Length
  • Threads
  • System Up Time
PerfmonMetrics:System
[perfmon://Process]
  •  % Processor Time
  •  % User Time
  •  % Privileged Time
  • Elapsed Time
  • ID Process
  • Virtual Bytes
  • Working Set
  • Private Bytes
  • IO Read Bytes/sec
  • IO Write Bytes/sec
PerfmonMetrics:Process
[perfmon://LogicalDisk]
  • Free Megabytes
  •  % Free Space
  • Avg. Disk sec/Transfer*
PerfmonMetrics:LogicalDisk

(*) Indicates counters that are required for the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows.

Log data

The source type for all Windows log data is uf.

These are the logs a universal forwarder collects for each Windows host by default:

  • $SPLUNK_HOMEvar\log\splunk\*.log*
  • Application
  • Security
  • System
  • Forwarded Events
  • Setup
Last modified on 28 February, 2024
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® IT Service Intelligence: 4.11.0, 4.14.2 Cloud only, 4.11.1, 4.11.2, 4.11.3, 4.11.4, 4.11.5, 4.11.6, 4.12.0 Cloud only, 4.12.1 Cloud only, 4.12.2 Cloud only, 4.13.0, 4.13.1, 4.13.2, 4.13.3, 4.14.0 Cloud only, 4.14.1 Cloud only


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