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Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibWebService

Overview

This collector monitors website requests and logins.

It queries the ‘Web Service’ object from Perflib in order to gather the metrics.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

  • windows

This collector only supports collecting metrics from a single instance of this integration.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

The collector automatically detects all of the metrics, no further configuration is required.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:windows:PerflibWebService] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Options

Name Description Default Required
update every Data collection frequency. 1 no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per IIS website

These metrics refer to the IIS website.

Labels:

Label Description
website The name of the IIS website.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
iis.website_traffic received, sent bytes/s
iis.website_requests_rate requests requests/s
iis.website_requests_by_type_rate options, get, post, head, put, delete, trace, move, copy, mkcol, propfind, proppatch, search, lock, unlock, other requests/s
iis.website_active_connections_count active connections
iis.website_users_count anonymous, non_anonymous users
iis.website_connection_attempts_rate connection attempts/s
iis.website_isapi_extension_requests_count isapi requests
iis.website_isapi_extension_requests_rate isapi requests/s
iis.website_ftp_file_transfer_rate received, sent files/s
iis.website_logon_attempts_rate logon attempts/s
iis.website_errors_rate document_locked, document_not_found errors/s
iis.website_uptime uptime seconds

Per IIS Application Pool

These metrics refer to the IIS application pool WAS (Windows Process Activation Service).

Labels:

Label Description
app The name of the Application Pool.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
iis.application_pool_current_status uninitialized, initialized, running, disabling, disabled, shutdown_pending, delete_pending status
iis.application_pool_current_worker_processes running processes
iis.application_pool_worker_processes_created created processes/s
iis.application_pool_maximum_worker_processes created processes
iis.application_pool_recent_worker_process_failures failures failures/s
iis.application_pool_worker_process_failures crash, ping, startup, shutdown failures/s
iis.application_pool_recycles recycles recycles/s
iis.application_pool_uptime uptime seconds

Per IIS W3SCV W3MP

These metrics refer to the World Wide Web Publishing Service, the service responsible for hosting and serving web content.

Labels:

Label Description
app Application name.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
iis.w3svc_w3wp_active_threads threads threads
iis.w3svc_w3wp_requests_total requests requests/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_requests_active requests requests
iis.w3svc_w3wp_file_cache_mem_usage used bytes
iis.w3svc_w3wp_files_cache_total cached_files files/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_files_flushed_total file_handles flushes/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_uri_cache_flushed cached_uris flushes/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_total_uri_cached uri_cache_blocks blocks/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_total_metadata_cached metadata_blocks blocks/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_total_metadata_flushed metadata_blocks flushes/s
iis.w3svc_w3wp_output_cache_active_flushed_items used items
iis.w3svc_w3wp_output_cache_memory_usage used bytes
iis.w3svc_w3wp_output_cache_flushed_total output_cache_entries flushes

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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