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Telegraf Windows Services

Telegraf is a plug-in driven server agent for collecting and sending metrics and events from databases, systems and IoT sensors.

To send your Prometheus-format Windows Services metrics to Logz.io, you need to add the inputs.win_services and outputs.http plug-ins to your Telegraf configuration file.

Configure Telegraf to send your metrics data to Logz.io​

Set up Telegraf v1.17 or higher​

wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.19.2_windows_amd64.zip

After downloading the archive, extract its content into C:\Program Files\Logzio\telegraf\.

The configuration file is located at C:\Program Files\Logzio\telegraf\.

Add the inputs.win_services plug-in​

First you need to configure the input plug-in to enable Telegraf to scrape the Windows Services data from your hosts. To do this, add the following code to the configuration file:

[[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*",
  ]
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The full list of data scraping and configuring options can be found here

Add the outputs.http plug-in​

After you create the configuration file, configure the output plug-in to enable Telegraf to send your data to Logz.io in Prometheus-format. To do this, add the following code to the configuration file:

[[outputs.http]]
  url = "https://<<LISTENER-HOST>>:8053"
  data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"
  [outputs.http.headers]
     Content-Type = "application/x-protobuf"
     Content-Encoding = "snappy"
     X-Prometheus-Remote-Write-Version = "0.1.0"
     Authorization = "Bearer <<PROMETHEUS-METRICS-SHIPPING-TOKEN>>"

Replace the placeholders to match your specifics. (They are indicated by the double angle brackets << >>):

  • Replace <<LISTENER-HOST>> with the Logz.io Listener URL for your region, configured to use port 8052 for http traffic, or port 8053 for https traffic.
  • Replace <<PROMETHEUS-METRICS-SHIPPING-TOKEN>> with a token for the Metrics account you want to ship to. Look up your Metrics token.

Start Telegraf​

telegraf.exe --service start

Check Logz.io for your metrics​

Give your data some time to get from your system to ours, then log in to your Logz.io Metrics account, and open the Logz.io Metrics tab.