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Active Directory

Active Directory

Plugin: windows.plugin Module: PerflibAD

Overview

This collector monitors Active Directory IO and queries.

It queries DirectoryServices object from Perflib in order to gather the metrics.

This collector is only supported on the following platforms:

  • windows

This collector only supports collecting metrics from a single instance of this integration.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

The collector automatically detects all of the metrics, no further configuration is required.

Limits

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

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:windows] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Options

Name Description Default Required
PerflibAD An option to enable or disable the data collection. yes no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

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 Active Directory

These metrics refer to Active Directory.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
ad.directory_operations read, write, search operations/s
ad.name_cache_lookups lookups lookups/s
ad.dra_replication_properties_updated inbound properties/s
ad.dra_replication_properties_filtered inbound properties/s
ad.dra_replication_intersite_compressed_traffic inbound, outbound bytes/s
ad.dra_replication_intrasite_compressed_traffic inbound, outbound bytes/s
ad.dra_replication_pending_syncs pending syncs
ad.dra_replication_pending_syncs pending syncs
ad.dra_replication_sync_requests request requests/s
ad.dra_replication_sync_objects_remaining object objects
ad.dra_replication_sync_objects_remaining object objects
ad.name_cache_hits hits hits/s
ad.ds_threads thread threads
ad.ldap_last_bind_time last_bind seconds
ad.ldap_searches searches searches/s
ad.atq_average_request_latency time seconds

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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