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Jan-Otto KröpkeandClaude
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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49 lines
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# system collector
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The system collector exposes metrics about ...
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Metric name prefix | `system`
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Data source | Performance Counters
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Enabled by default? | Yes
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## Flags
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None
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## Metrics
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| Name | Description | Type | Labels |
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| `windows_system_boot_time_timestamp` | Unix timestamp of last system boot | gauge | None |
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| `windows_system_context_switches_total` | Total number of [context switches](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_switch) | counter | None |
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| `windows_system_exception_dispatches_total` | Total exceptions dispatched by the system | counter | None |
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| `windows_system_processes` | Number of process contexts currently loaded or running on the operating system | gauge | None |
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| `windows_system_processes_limit` | Maximum number of processes. Windows has no defined limit, so this is always reported as 4294967295 | gauge | None |
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| `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 |
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| `windows_system_system_calls_total` | Total combined calls to Windows NT system service routines by all processes running on the computer | counter | None |
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| `windows_system_threads` | Number of Windows system [threads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)) | gauge | None |
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### Example metric
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Show current number of system threads
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```
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windows_system_threads{instance="localhost"}
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Show current number of processes
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```
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windows_system_processes{instance="localhost"}
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```
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## Useful queries
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Find hosts that have rebooted in the last 24 hours
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```
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time() - windows_system_boot_time_timestamp < 86400
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```
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## Alerting examples
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_This collector does not yet have alerting examples, we would appreciate your help adding them!_
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