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# Systemd Services


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Plugin: cgroups.plugin
Module: /sys/fs/cgroup

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## Overview

Monitor containers and virtual machines resource utilization — CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network — via Linux cgroups.



This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

- Linux

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.


### Default Behavior

#### Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

#### 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

#### Options



There are no configuration options.



#### via File

There is no configuration file.

##### Examples
There are no configuration examples.



## Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.


## 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 systemd service



Labels:

| Label      | Description     |
|:-----------|:----------------|
| service_name | Service name |

Metrics:

| Metric | Dimensions | Unit |
|:------|:----------|:----|
| systemd.service.cpu.utilization | user, system | percentage |
| systemd.service.memory.usage | ram, swap | MiB |
| systemd.service.memory.failcnt | fail | failures/s |
| systemd.service.memory.ram.usage | rss, cache, mapped_file, rss_huge | MiB |
| systemd.service.memory.writeback | writeback, dirty | MiB |
| systemd.service.memory.paging.faults | minor, major | MiB/s |
| systemd.service.memory.paging.io | in, out | MiB/s |
| systemd.service.disk.io | read, write | KiB/s |
| systemd.service.disk.iops | read, write | operations/s |
| systemd.service.disk.throttle.io | read, write | KiB/s |
| systemd.service.disk.throttle.iops | read, write | operations/s |
| systemd.service.disk.queued_iops | read, write | operations/s |
| systemd.service.disk.merged_iops | read, write | operations/s |
| systemd.service.pids.current | pids | pids |


