# net collector

The net collector exposes metrics about network interfaces

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Metric name prefix  | `net`
Classes             | [`Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface`](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa394340(v=vs.80))
Enabled by default? | Yes

## Flags

### `--collector.net.nic-whitelist`

If given, an interface name needs to match the whitelist regexp in order for the corresponding metrics to be reported

### `--collector.net.nic-blacklist`

If given, an interface name needs to *not* match the blacklist regexp in order for the corresponding metrics to be reported

## Metrics

Name | Description | Type | Labels
-----|-------------|------|-------
`wmi_net_bytes_received_total` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_bytes_sent_total` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_bytes_total` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_outbound_discarded` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_outbound_errors` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_received_discarded` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_received_errors` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_received_total` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_received_unknown` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_total` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_packets_sent_total` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`
`wmi_net_current_bandwidth` | _Not yet documented_ | counter | `nic`

### Example metric
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## Useful queries
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## Alerting examples
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