windows_exporter/docs/collector.service.md

service collector

The service collector exposes metrics about Windows Services

Metric name prefix	service
Classes	Win32_Service
Enabled by default?	Yes

Flags

--collector.service.services-where

A WMI filter on which services to include. Recommended to keep down number of returned metrics.

Example: --collector.service.services-where="Name='wmi_exporter'"

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
wmi_service_state	The state of the service, 1 if the current state, 0 otherwise	gauge	name, state
wmi_service_start_mode	The start mode of the service, 1 if the current start mode, 0 otherwise	gauge	name, start_mode
wmi_service_status	The status of the service, 1 if the current status, 0 otherwise	gauge	name, status

For the values of the state, start_mode and status labels, see below.

States

A service can be in the following states:

• stopped
• start pending
• stop pending
• running
• continue pending
• pause pending
• paused
• unknown

Start modes

A service can have the following start modes:

• boot
• system
• auto
• manual
• disabled

Status

A service can have any of the following statuses:

• ok
• error
• degraded
• unknown
• pred fail
• starting
• stopping
• service
• stressed
• nonrecover
• no contact
• lost comm

Note that there is some overlap with service state.

Example metric

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Useful queries

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Alerting examples

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