Windows Services Input Plugin

This plugin collects information about the status of Windows services.

[!NOTE] Monitoring some services may require running Telegraf with administrator privileges.

⭐ Telegraf v1.4.0 🏷️ system 💻 windows

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

toml

# Input plugin to report Windows services info.
# This plugin ONLY supports Windows
[[inputs.win_services]]
  ## Names of the services to monitor. Leave empty to monitor all the available
  ## services on the host. Globs accepted. Case insensitive.
  service_names = [
    "LanmanServer",
    "TermService",
    "Win*",
  ]

  # optional, list of service names to exclude
  excluded_service_names = ['WinRM']

Metrics

win_services
- tags
  - service_name
  - display_name
- fields
  - 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

Example Output

text

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