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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:

[[inputs.win_services]]
  ## Names of the services to monitor. Leave empty to monitor all the available services on the host. Globs accepted.
  service_names = [
    "LanmanServer",
    "TermService",
    "Win*",
  ]

Measurements & Fields:

  • 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')