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Windows Services

Plugin: apps.plugin Module: services

Overview

This integration monitors resource utilization grouped by Windows Service.

It auto-discovers running Windows services via the Service Control Manager and groups each service's process tree to aggregate CPU, memory, I/O, and other metrics per service. Processes not belonging to any service are grouped under 'not-services'.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

• windows

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

All running Windows services are automatically discovered. No configuration is needed.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

No additional SCM query overhead. The service list is already queried by apps.plugin for process naming. Per-iteration work involves walking parent chains to assign service names.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

Options

Service charts are enabled by default. Use the without-services (or no-services) command line option to disable them.

via File

There is no configuration file.

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 windows service

These metrics refer to the Windows Service.

Labels:

Label	Description
service	The display name of the Windows service.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit	windows
service.cpu_utilization	user, system	percentage	•
service.mem_usage	rss	MiB	•
service.vmem_usage	vmem	MiB	•
service.mem_page_faults	minor	pgfaults/s	•
service.swap_usage	swap	MiB	•
service.disk_logical_io	reads, writes	KiB/s	•
service.fds_open	handles	fds	•
service.processes	processes	processes	•
service.threads	threads	threads	•
service.uptime	uptime	seconds	•
service.uptime_summary	min, avg, max	seconds	•