# textfile collector

The textfile collector exposes metrics from files written by other processes.

Metric name prefix | `textfile`
Classes             | None
Enabled by default? | Yes

## Flags

### `--collector.textfile.directory`

The directory containing the files to be ingested.

Default value: `C:\Program Files\wmi_exporter\textfile_inputs`

Required: No

## Metrics

Metrics will primarily come from the files on disk. The below listed metrics
are collected to give information about the reading of the metrics themselves.

Name | Description | Type | Labels
-----|-------------|------|-------
`wmi_textfile_scrape_error` | 1 if there was an error opening or reading a file, 0 otherwise | gauge | None
`wmi_textfile_mtime_seconds` | Unix epoch-formatted mtime (modified time) of textfiles successfully read | gauge | file

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