Hardware information collected from kernel ring.

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: GetHardwareInfo

Overview

This collector monitors cpu temperature on Windows systems.

It reads msr register using netdata_driver.sys driver.

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

This optional feature requires the Netdata Driver (netdata_driver.sys) to be installed on the host.

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

Install the Netdata Driver (netdata_driver.sys)

CPU temperature monitoring on Windows requires the Netdata kernel driver (netdata_driver.sys) to be installed on the host. The driver is an optional component and is not installed by default.

When you install Netdata with the Windows MSI installer, select the Netdata Driver: Hardware Metrics Collection option on the feature selection screen. If Netdata is already installed without the driver, the installer's Change/Modify option does not expose this checkbox again; uninstall Netdata first, then reinstall it and select the option during setup.

Editing netdata.conf alone is not enough. Without the driver, the GetHardwareInfo module cannot read the CPU msr register, so the cpu.temperature chart is never created and CPU temperature will not appear on the dashboard. The collector records an error in the Netdata log, but no temperature chart is produced.

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:GetHardwareInfo] 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.

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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 Hardware information collected from kernel ring. instance

This metric show latest CPU temperature.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Description	Dimensions	Unit
cpu.temperature	Core temperature	a dimension per core	Celcius