windows_exporter/docs/collector.system.md

system collector

The system collector exposes metrics about ...

Metric name prefix	system
Classes	Win32_PerfRawData_PerfOS_System
Enabled by default?	Yes

Flags

None

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
wmi_system_context_switches_total	Total number of context switches	counter	None
wmi_system_exception_dispatches_total	Total exceptions dispatched by the system	counter	None
wmi_system_processor_queue_length	Number of threads in the processor queue. There is a single queue for processor time even on computers with multiple processors.	gauge	None
wmi_system_system_calls_total	Total combined calls to Windows NT system service routines by all processes running on the computer	counter	None
wmi_system_system_up_time	Time of last boot of system	gauge	None
wmi_system_threads	Number of Windows system threads	gauge	None

Example metric

Show current number of system threads

wmi_system_threads{instance="localhost"}

Useful queries

Find hosts that have rebooted in the last 24 hours

time() - wmi_system_system_up_time < 86400

Alerting examples

This collector does not yet have alerting examples, we would appreciate your help adding them!