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Sensors

Sensors

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: GetSensors

Overview

This collector monitors sensors on Windows systems.

It uses Sensors API to retrieve available data.

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

Options

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

via File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:windows:GetSensors] 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
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 Sensor

These metrics refer to Sensors.

Labels:

Label Description
name Sensor friendly name.
manufacturer The sensor manufacturer.
model The sensor model.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
system.hw.sensor.temperature.input input Cel
system.hw.sensor.power.input input W
system.hw.sensor.current.input input A
system.hw.sensor.humidity.input input %
system.hw.sensor.lux.input input lx
system.hw.sensor.color.input input Cel
system.hw.sensor.voltage.input input V
system.hw.sensor.resistence.input input Ohms
system.hw.sensor.pressure.input input Pa
system.hw.sensor.latitude.input input Degrees
system.hw.sensor.longitude.input input Degrees
system.hw.sensor.force.input input N
system.hw.sensor.gauge_pressure.input input Pa
system.hw.sensor.distance.input inputX, inputY, inputZ m
system.hw.sensor.acceleration.input inputX, inputY, inputZ g
system.hw.sensor.state.input ready, not_available, no_data, initializing, access_denied, error status

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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