Processor

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibProcessor

Overview

This collector monitors processors statistics on host.

It queries Processor 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 System

These metrics refer to the entire system.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
system.cpu	interrupts, user, privileged, dpc	percentage

Per CPU

These metrics provide information about individual CPU cores.

Labels:

Label	Description
cpu	The identifier of the CPU core. On Windows systems, CPU cores are labeled as 'cpu0', 'cpu1', etc.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
cpu.cpu	interrupts, user, privileged, dpc	percentage

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
10min_cpu_usage	system.cpu	Average CPU utilization over the last 10 minutes

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
PerflibProcessor	An option to enable or disable the data collection.	yes	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.