Active Directory

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibAD

Overview

This collector monitors Active Directory IO and queries.

It queries DirectoryServices object from Perflib in order to gather the metrics.

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.

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 Active Directory

These metrics refer to Active Directory.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ad.directory_operations	read, write, search	operations/s
ad.name_cache_lookups	lookups	lookups/s
ad.dra_replication_properties_updated	inbound	properties/s
ad.dra_replication_properties_filtered	inbound	properties/s
ad.dra_replication_intersite_compressed_traffic	inbound, outbound	bytes/s
ad.dra_replication_intrasite_compressed_traffic	inbound, outbound	bytes/s
ad.dra_replication_pending_syncs	pending	syncs
ad.dra_replication_pending_syncs	pending	syncs
ad.dra_replication_sync_requests	request	requests/s
ad.dra_replication_sync_objects_remaining	object	objects
ad.dra_replication_sync_objects_remaining	object	objects
ad.name_cache_hits	hits	hits/s
ad.ds_threads	thread	threads
ad.ldap_last_bind_time	last_bind	seconds
ad.ldap_searches	searches	searches/s
ad.atq_average_request_latency	time	seconds

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

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

Options

Name	Description	Default	Required
PerflibAD	An option to enable or disable the data collection.	yes	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.