windows_exporter/docs/collector.os.md

os collector

The os collector exposes metrics about the operating system

Metric name prefix	os
Classes	Win32_OperatingSystem
Enabled by default?	Yes

Flags

None

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
windows_os_info	Contains full product name & version in labels. Note that the major_version for Windows 11 is "10"; a build number greater than 22000 represents Windows 11.	gauge	product, version, major_version, minor_version, build_number
windows_os_paging_limit_bytes	Total number of bytes that can be stored in the operating system paging files. 0 (zero) indicates that there are no paging files	gauge	None
windows_os_paging_free_bytes	Number of bytes that can be mapped into the operating system paging files without causing any other pages to be swapped out	gauge	None
windows_os_physical_memory_free_bytes	Bytes of physical memory currently unused and available	gauge	None
windows_os_time	Current time as reported by the operating system, in Unix time. See time.Unix() for details	gauge	None
windows_os_timezone	Current timezone as reported by the operating system. See time.Zone() for details	gauge	timezone
windows_os_processes	Number of process contexts currently loaded or running on the operating system	gauge	None
windows_os_processes_limit	Maximum number of process contexts the operating system can support. The default value set by the provider is 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF)	gauge	None
windows_os_process_memory_limit_bytes	Maximum number of bytes of memory that can be allocated to a process	gauge	None
windows_os_users	Number of user sessions for which the operating system is storing state information currently. For a list of current active logon sessions, see logon	gauge	None
windows_os_virtual_memory_bytes	Bytes of virtual memory	gauge	None
windows_os_visible_memory_bytes	Total bytes of physical memory available to the operating system. This value does not necessarily indicate the true amount of physical memory, but what is reported to the operating system as available to it	gauge	None
windows_os_virtual_memory_free_bytes	Bytes of virtual memory currently unused and available	gauge	None

Example metric

Show current number of processes

windows_os_processes{instance="localhost"}

Useful queries

Find all devices not set to UTC timezone

windows_os_timezone{timezone != "UTC"}

Alerting examples

prometheus.rules

# Alert on hosts that have exhausted all available physical memory
- alert: MemoryExhausted
  expr: windows_os_physical_memory_free_bytes == 0
  for: 10m
  labels:
    severity: high
  annotations:
    summary: "Host {{ $labels.instance }} is out of memory"
    description: "{{ $labels.instance }} has exhausted all available physical memory"

# Alert on hosts with greater than 90% memory usage
- alert: MemoryLow
  expr: 100 - 100 * windows_os_physical_memory_free_bytes / windows_cs_physical_memory_bytes > 90
  for: 10m
  labels:
    severity: warning
  annotations:
    summary: "Memory usage for host {{ $labels.instance }} is greater than 90%"