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Processor

Processor

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibProcessor

Overview

This collector monitors processors statistics on host.

It queries Processor 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.

Limits

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

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

File

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

Options

Name Description Default Required
PerflibProcessor An option to enable or disable the data collection. yes no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

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 System

These metrics refer to the entire system.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
system.cpu interrupts, user, privileged, dpc percentage

Per CPU

These metrics provide information about individual CPU cores.

Labels:

Label Description
cpu The identifier of the CPU core. On Windows systems, CPU cores are labeled as ‘cpu0’, ‘cpu1’, etc.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
cpu.cpu interrupts, user, privileged, dpc percentage

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name On metric Description
10min_cpu_usage system.cpu Average CPU utilization over the last 10 minutes

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