Telegraf Performance Counter Templates

This file contains examples that can be used together with Telegraf's win_perfcounter plugin to obtain performance data from various performance counter objects. Feel free to comment with suggestions to update this list.

# AD DS (see also SMB and DFS)
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    Object = "Security System-Wide Statistics"
    Counters = ["NTLM Authentications","Kerberos Authentications","Digest Authentications"]
    Measurement = "win_ad"
    
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    Object = "DirectoryServices"
    Counters = ["Base Searches/sec","Database adds/sec","Database deletes/sec","Database modifys/sec","Database recycles/sec","LDAP Client Sessions"]
    Measurement = "win_ad" # Set an alternative measurement to win_perfcounters if wanted.

# DFS N    
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # Useful if the server hosts a DFS Namespace or is a Domain Controller
    Object = "DFS Namespace Service Referrals"
    Counters = ["Requests Processed","Requests Failed","Avg. Response Time"]
    Measurement = "win_dfsn"
    
# DFS R
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # Useful if the server hosts a DFS Replication folder or is a Domain Controller
    Object = "DFS Replication Service Volumes"
    Counters = ["Data Lookups","Database Commits"]
    Measurement = "win_dfsr"
    
# dotNET
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # .NET CLR Exceptions
    Object = ".NET CLR Exceptions"
    Counters = ["# of Exceps Thrown"]
    Measurement = "win_dotnet"
    
# HTTP & IIS, see also dotNET .
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # HTTP Service request queues in the Kernel before being handed over to User Mode.
    Object = "HTTP Service Request Queues"
    Counters = ["CurrentQueueSize","RejectedRequests"]
    Measurement = "win_http_queues"
    
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # HTTP Service request queues in the Kernel before being handed over to User Mode.
    Object = "Web Service"
    Counters = ["Current Connections", "Total Bytes Received", "Total Bytes Sent","Total Connection attempts (all instances)"]
    Measurement = "win_websvc"
    
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # ASP.NET Applications 
    Object = "ASP.NET Applications"
    Counters = ["Requests Total","Request Wait Time","Request Execution Time"]
    Measurement = "win_asp_net"
    
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.object]]
    # ASP.NET 
    Object = "ASP.NET"
    Counters = ["Requests Queued"]
    Measurement = "win_asp_net"
    
  

# SMB / File Server
  [[inputs.win_perfcounters.PerfObjects]]
	  ObjectName = "SMB Client Shares"
	  Counters = ["Write Bytes/sec","Read Bytes/sec","Current Data Queue Length"]
	  Measurement = "win_smb_client"