Sematext Windows Monitoring
Windows Services¶
Sematext Monitoring includes support for Windows Services. Starting from Sematext Agent version 3.5.0, you can collect and monitor the status of any Windows Service available in your system.
Metrics¶
The Sematext Agent for Windows, starting from version 3.5.0, is capable of collecting metrics related with the status of Windows services. At present, the primary metric supported is the status of each service including a number of statistics, which allows users to determine whether a service is running, stopped, or experiencing issues.
List of available metrics¶
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| windows.service.status | number | status of a Windows service |
| windows.service.total | gauge | total number of Windows services |
| windows.service.total.running | gauge | total number of running Windows services |
| windows.service.total.not_running | gauge | total number of non running Windows services |
Available Windows Services statuses¶
Below is a list of all the possible values (statuses) of the windows.service.status metric.
| Value | Service Status |
|---|---|
| 1 | stopped |
| 2 | start pending |
| 3 | stop pending |
| 4 | running |
| 5 | continue pending |
| 6 | pause pending |
| 7 | paused |
Available Tags¶
Below is a list of available tags related to Windows Services. Tags can be used in conjuction with the windows.service.status metric to get information about a specific Windows service, such as the name or type of the service. For example, you can edit any chart in the Infrastructure > Windows > Top Services report to see how Windows Service metrics and tags can be used to retrieve this information.
| Tag name | Description |
|---|---|
| windows.service.name | name of the Windows service |
| windows.service.type | type of the Windows service |
| windows.service.pid | process ID of the Windows service |
For more information about the status of Windows Services and the available service types, please refer to the official documentation.
Windows Services Reports¶
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Out of the box alerts¶
Each time you create a new Infra App in Sematext Cloud to monitor your Windows servers, a number of pre-configured alerts are created as well, fine tuned to catch various issues and help you prevent your systems from going down.
Refer to our infrastructure default alerts to learn more.
Moreover, a set of pre-defined alerts is supported for the status of several important Windows services. These alerts are triggered when the status of any monitored service is not running. The following services are monitored out-of-the-box:
- Windows Time (W32Time)
- Security Accounts Manager (SamSs)
- Event Log (eventlog)
- Task Scheduler (Schedule)
- DHCP Client (Dhcp)
- LanmanWorkstation
- LanmanServer
- Plug and Play (PlugPlay)
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) (winmgmt)
- Group Policy Client (gpsvc)
- Cryptographic Services (CryptSvc)
- Print Spooler (Spooler)
- Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan)
- Network Store Interface Service (nsi)
- Network List Service (NlaSvc)
In addition to having alerts for these services, you can create alerts for any other Windows Service you like, as long as it is available on your Windows machines.