pagefile collector

November 14, 2024 ยท View on GitHub

The pagefile collector exposes metrics about the pagefile usage

Metric name prefixpagefile
ClassesWin32_OperatingSystem
Enabled by default?Yes

Flags

None

Metrics

NameDescriptionTypeLabels
windows_pagefile_free_bytesNumber of bytes that can be mapped into the operating system paging files without causing any other pages to be swapped outgaugefile
windows_pagefile_limit_bytesNumber of bytes that can be stored in the operating system paging files. 0 (zero) indicates that there are no paging filesgaugefile

Example metric

# HELP windows_pagefile_free_bytes OperatingSystem.FreeSpaceInPagingFiles
# TYPE windows_pagefile_free_bytes gauge
windows_pagefile_free_bytes{file="C:\\pagefile.sys"} 6.025797632e+09
# HELP windows_pagefile_limit_bytes OperatingSystem.SizeStoredInPagingFiles
# TYPE windows_pagefile_limit_bytes gauge
windows_pagefile_limit_bytes{file="C:\\pagefile.sys"} 6.442450944e+09

Useful queries

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