license collector

The license collector exposes metrics about the Windows license status.

Metric name prefix	license
Data source	Win32
Enabled by default?	No

Flags

None

Metrics

Name	Description	Type	Labels
windows_license_status	license status	gauge	state

Example metric

# HELP windows_license_status Status of windows license
# TYPE windows_license_status gauge
windows_license_status{state="genuine"} 1
windows_license_status{state="invalid_license"} 0
windows_license_status{state="last"} 0
windows_license_status{state="offline"} 0
windows_license_status{state="tampered"} 0

Useful queries

Show if the license is genuine

windows_license_status{state="genuine"}

Alerting examples

prometheus.rules

  - alert: "WindowsLicense"
    expr: 'windows_license_status{state="genuine"} == 0'
    for: "10m"
    labels:
      severity: "high"
    annotations:
      summary: "Windows system license is not genuine"
      description: "The Windows system license is not genuine. Please check the license status."