windows_exporter/docs/collector.textfile.md

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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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