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Windows performance counters πŸ”—

Description πŸ”—

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector provides this integration as the telegraf/win_perf_counters monitor type for the Smart Agent Receiver.

Use this monitor to receive metrics from Windows performance counters.

This monitor is available on Windows.

Note

For information on the OpenTelemetry receiver based on the Windows Performance Counters input plugin, see Windows Performance Counters receiver.

Benefits πŸ”—

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

  • View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Observability Cloud.

  • View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.

  • Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Use the Metric Finder.

Installation πŸ”—

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host:

  2. Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration πŸ”—

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector πŸ”—

To activate this monitor in the OpenTelemetry Collector, add the following to your agent configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/telegraf/win_perf_counters:
    type: telegraf/win_perf_counters
    ... # Additional config

The following snippet shows a sample configuration with counters and settings:

receivers:
 - type: telegraf/win_perf_counters
   printValid: true
   objects:
    - objectName: "Processor"
      instances:
       - "*"
      counters:
       - "% Idle Time"
       - "% Interrupt Time"
       - "% Privileged Time"
       - "% User Time"
       - "% Processor Time"
      includeTotal: true
      measurement: "win_cpu"

To complete the monitor activation, you must also include the smartagent/telegraf/win_perf_counters receiver item in a metrics pipeline. To do this, add the receiver item to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file. For example:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/telegraf/win_perf_counters]

Configuration settings πŸ”—

The following table shows the configuration options for the telegraf/win_perf_counters receiver:

Option

Required

Type

Description

objects

No

list of objects (see below)

Contains the configuration of the monitor.

counterRefreshInterval

No

int64

Frequency of expansion of the counter paths and counter refresh. The default value is 5s)

useWildCardExpansion

No

bool

If set to true, instance indexes are included in instance names, and wildcards are expanded and localized when applicable. The default value is false.

printValid

No

bool

Print the configurations that match available performance counters. The default value is false.

pcrMetricNames

No

bool

If true, metric names are emitted in the PerfCounterReporter format. The default value is false.

The nested objects configuration object has the following fields:

Option

Required

Type

Description

objectName

No

string

The name of a Windows performance counter object.

counters

No

list of strings

The name of the counters to collect from the performance counter object.

instances

No

list of strings

The Windows performance counter instances to retrieve for the performance counter object.

measurement

No

string

The name of the Telegraf measurement to be used as a metric name.

warnOnMissing

No

bool

Log a warning if the performance counter object is missing. The default value is false.

failOnMissing

No

bool

Throws an error if the performance counter object is missing. The default value is false.

includeTotal

No

bool

Include the total instance when collecting performance counter metrics. The default value is false.

Metrics πŸ”—

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector doesn’t filter metrics for this receiver.

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