windows_exporter/docs/collector.file.md

file collector

The file collector exposes modified timestamps and file size of files in the filesystem.

The collector

Metric name prefix	file
Enabled by default?	No

Flags

--collector.file.file-patterns

Comma-separated list of file patterns. Each pattern is a glob pattern that can contain *, ?, and ** (recursive). See https://github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar#patterns for an extended description of the pattern syntax.

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
windows_file_mtime_timestamp_seconds	File modification time	gauge	file
windows_file_size_bytes	File size	gauge	file

Example metric

# HELP windows_file_mtime_timestamp_seconds File modification time
# TYPE windows_file_mtime_timestamp_seconds gauge
windows_file_mtime_timestamp_seconds{file="C:\\Users\\admin\\Desktop\\Dashboard.lnk"} 1.726434517e+09
# HELP windows_file_size_bytes File size
# TYPE windows_file_size_bytes gauge
windows_file_size_bytes{file="C:\\Users\\admin\\Desktop\\Dashboard.lnk"} 123

Useful queries

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Alerting examples

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