windows_exporter/docs/collector.time.md

time collector

The time collector exposes the Windows Time Service metrics. Note that the Windows Time Service must be running, else metric collection will fail. If the Windows Time Service is stopped after collection has started, collector metric values will reset to 0.

Please note the Time Service perflib counters are only available on Windows Server 2016 or newer.

Metric name prefix	time
Data source	PDH
Enabled by default?	No

Flags

--collectors.time.enabled

Comma-separated list of collectors to use, for example: --collectors.time.enabled=ntp,system_time. Matching is case-sensitive.

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
windows_time_clock_frequency_adjustment_ppb_total	Total adjustment made to the local system clock frequency by W32Time in parts per billion (PPB) units. 1 PPB adjustment implies the system clock was adjusted at a rate of 1 nanosecond per second (1 ns/s). The smallest possible adjustment can vary and is expected to be in the order of 100's of PPB.	counter	None
windows_time_computed_time_offset_seconds	The absolute time offset between the system clock and the chosen time source, as computed by the W32Time service in microseconds. When a new valid sample is available, the computed time is updated with the time offset indicated by the sample. This time is the actual time offset of the local clock. W32Time initiates clock correction by using this offset and updates the computed time in between samples with the remaining time offset that needs to be applied to the local clock. Clock accuracy can be tracked by using this performance counter with a low polling interval (for example, 256 seconds or less) and looking for the counter value to be smaller than the desired clock accuracy limit.	gauge	None
windows_time_ntp_client_time_sources	Active number of NTP Time sources being used by the client. This is a count of active, distinct IP addresses of time servers that are responding to this client's requests.	gauge	None
windows_time_ntp_round_trip_delay_seconds	Total roundtrip delay experienced by the NTP client in receiving a response from the server for the most recent request, in seconds. This is the time elapsed on the NTP client between transmitting a request to the NTP server and receiving a valid response from the server.	gauge	None
windows_time_ntp_server_outgoing_responses_total	Total number of requests responded to by the NTP server.	counter	None
windows_time_ntp_server_incoming_requests_total	Total number of requests received by the NTP server.	counter	None
windows_time_current_timestamp_seconds	Current time as reported by the operating system, in Unix time. See time.Unix() for details	gauge	None
windows_time_timezone	Current timezone as reported by the operating system.	gauge	timezone

Example metric

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Useful queries

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Alerting examples

prometheus.rules

# Alert on hosts with an NTP client delay of more than 1 second, for a 5 minute period or longer.
- alert: NTPClientDelay
  expr: windows_time_ntp_round_trip_delay_seconds > 1
  for: 5m
  labels:
    severity: warning
  annotations:
    summary: "NTP client delay: (instance {{ $labels.instance }})"
    description: "RTT for NTP client is greater than 1 second!\nVALUE = {{ $value }}sec\n  LABELS: {{ $labels }}"