Windows Performance Counters (deprecated) 🔗
Caution
This integration is deprecated and will reach End of Support in a future release. During this period only critical security and bug fixes are provided. When End of Support is reached, the monitor will be removed and no longer be supported, and you won’t be able to use it to send data to Splunk Observability Cloud.
To forward metrics from Windows Performance Counters to Splunk Observability Cloud use the Windows Performance Counters receiver instead.
The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the telegraf/win_perf_counters monitor type to receive metrics from Windows performance counters.
This monitor is available on Windows.
Benefits 🔗
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 Splunk 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 Use navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Search the Metric Finder and Metadata Catalog.
Installation 🔗
Follow these steps to deploy this integration:
Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host:
Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.
Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.
Configuration 🔗
To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:
Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.
Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.
See how to Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.
See how to set up the Smart Agent receiver.
For a list of common configuration options, refer to Common configuration settings for monitors.
Learn more about the Collector at Get started: Understand and use the Collector.
Example 🔗
To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector 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"
Next, add the monitor to the service.pipelines.metrics.receivers
section of your configuration file:
service:
pipelines:
metrics:
receivers: [smartagent/telegraf/win_perf_counters]
Configuration settings 🔗
The following table shows the configuration options for the
telegraf/win_perf_counters receiver:
Option |
Required |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
No |
|
Contains the configuration of the monitor. |
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
The nested objects configuration object has the following fields:
Option |
Required |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
No |
|
The name of a Windows performance counter object. |
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
|
No |
|
|
Metrics 🔗
The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector doesn’t filter metrics for this receiver.
Troubleshooting 🔗
If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.
Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers
Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal .
Contact Splunk Support .
Available to prospective customers and free trial users
Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .
Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups in the Get Started with Splunk Community manual.