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# Windows Services


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Plugin: apps.plugin
Module: services

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## Overview

This integration monitors resource utilization grouped by Windows Service.

It auto-discovers running Windows services via the Service Control Manager and groups each service's process tree to aggregate CPU, memory, I/O, and other metrics per service. Processes not belonging to any service are grouped under 'not-services'.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

- windows

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


### Default Behavior

#### Auto-Detection

All running Windows services are automatically discovered. No configuration is needed.

#### Limits

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

#### Performance Impact

No additional SCM query overhead. The service list is already queried by apps.plugin for process naming. Per-iteration work involves walking parent chains to assign service names.

## Setup


### Prerequisites

No action required.

### Configuration

#### Options

Service charts are enabled by default. Use the `without-services` (or `no-services`) command line option to disable them.



#### 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 windows service

These metrics refer to the Windows Service.

Labels:

| Label      | Description     |
|:-----------|:----------------|
| service | The display name of the Windows service. |

Metrics:

| Metric | Dimensions | Unit | windows |
|:------|:----------|:----|:---:|
| service.cpu_utilization | user, system | percentage | • |
| service.mem_usage | rss | MiB | • |
| service.vmem_usage | vmem | MiB | • |
| service.mem_page_faults | minor | pgfaults/s | • |
| service.swap_usage | swap | MiB | • |
| service.disk_logical_io | reads, writes | KiB/s | • |
| service.fds_open | handles | fds | • |
| service.processes | processes | processes | • |
| service.threads | threads | threads | • |
| service.uptime | uptime | seconds | • |
| service.uptime_summary | min, avg, max | seconds | • |


