win_services

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Windows Services Input Plugin

Reports information about Windows service status.

Monitoring some services may require running Telegraf with administrator privileges.

Configuration

# Input plugin to report Windows services info.
[[inputs.win_services]]
  ## Names of the services to monitor. Leave empty to monitor all the available services on the host. Globs accepted. Case sensitive.
  service_names = [
    "LanmanServer",
    "TermService",
    "Win*",
  ]
  excluded_service_names = ['WinRM'] # optional, list of service names to exclude

Metrics

• win_services
  • state : integer
  • startup_mode : integer

The state field can have the following values:

• 1 - stopped
• 2 - start pending
• 3 - stop pending
• 4 - running
• 5 - continue pending
• 6 - pause pending
• 7 - paused

The startup_mode field can have the following values:

• 0 - boot start
• 1 - system start
• 2 - auto start
• 3 - demand start
• 4 - disabled

Tags

• All measurements have the following tags:
  • service_name
  • display_name

Example Output

win_services,host=WIN2008R2H401,display_name=Server,service_name=LanmanServer state=4i,startup_mode=2i 1500040669000000000
win_services,display_name=Remote\ Desktop\ Services,service_name=TermService,host=WIN2008R2H401 state=1i,startup_mode=3i 1500040669000000000

TICK Scripts

A sample TICK script for a notification about a not running service. It sends a notification whenever any service changes its state to be not running and when it changes that state back to running. The notification is sent via an HTTP POST call.

stream
    |from()
        .database('telegraf')
        .retentionPolicy('autogen')
        .measurement('win_services')
        .groupBy('host','service_name')
    |alert()
        .crit(lambda: "state" != 4)
        .stateChangesOnly()
        .message('Service {{ index .Tags "service_name" }} on Host {{ index .Tags "host" }} is in state {{ index .Fields "state" }} ')
        .post('http://localhost:666/alert/service')