windows_exporter/docs/collector.system.md

system collector

The system collector exposes metrics about ...

Metric name prefix	system
Data source	Performance Counters
Enabled by default?	Yes

Flags

None

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
windows_system_boot_time_timestamp	Unix timestamp of last system boot	gauge	None
windows_system_context_switches_total	Total number of context switches	counter	None
windows_system_exception_dispatches_total	Total exceptions dispatched by the system	counter	None
windows_system_processes	Number of process contexts currently loaded or running on the operating system	gauge	None
windows_system_processes_limit	Maximum number of processes. Windows has no defined limit, so this is always reported as 4294967295	gauge	None
windows_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
windows_system_system_calls_total	Total combined calls to Windows NT system service routines by all processes running on the computer	counter	None
windows_system_threads	Number of Windows system threads	gauge	None

Example metric

Show current number of system threads

windows_system_threads{instance="localhost"}

Show current number of processes

windows_system_processes{instance="localhost"}

Useful queries

Find hosts that have rebooted in the last 24 hours

time() - windows_system_boot_time_timestamp < 86400

Alerting examples

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