Windowsservice Receiver

Available in: contrib Maintainers: @pjanotti, @shalper2 Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Supported Telemetry

Overview

Getting Started

By default the Windows Service Receiver will attempt to identify and monitor the status of all specified services on the host machine. An example of monitoring three services on a host:

windows_service:
  collection_interval: <duration> # default = 1m
  include_services:
    - service1
    - service2
    - service3
    ...

The case where you wish to monitor all services present on a host machine, except for service3:

windows_service:
  collection_interval: <duration> # default = 1m
  include_services:
  exclude_services:
    - service3
    ...

Metrics

Metric Name	Description	Unit	Type	Attributes
✅ `windows.service.status`	Gauge value containing service status as an integer value.	{status}	Gauge	name, startup_mode

Attributes

Attribute Name	Description	Type	Values
`name`	The name of the windows Service being reported.	string
`startup_mode`	Startup mode of Windows Service	string	`boot_start`, `system_start`, `auto_start`, `demand_start`, `disabled`

Last generated: 2026-08-24