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description	menu	tags	introduced	os_support	related
Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Windows Services	telegraf_v1_ref parent name identifier input_plugins_reference Windows Services input-win_services	Windows Services input-plugins configuration system	v1.4.0	windows	/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/ https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.36.1/plugins/inputs/win_services/README.md, Windows Services Plugin Source

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.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.4.0 Tags: system OS support: windows

Global configuration options

In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# 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

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