Semaphore statistics

Semaphore statistics

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibObjects

Overview

Inter-Process Communication (IPC) enables different processes to communicate and coordinate with each other. This collector monitors IPC semaphores, which are synchronization tools that:

• Control access to shared resources (like files, memory, or devices).
• Ensure only one process can access a resource at a time.
• Prevent conflicts between competing processes.

It queries for the ‘Objects’ object from Perflib in order to gather the metrics.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

• windows

This collector only supports collecting metrics from a single instance of this integration.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

The collector automatically detects all of the metrics, no further configuration is required.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

Options

via File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:windows:PerflibObjects] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Examples

There are no configuration examples.