Active Directory Domain Services receiver

The Active Directory Domain Services receiver scrapes metrics relating to an Active Directory domain controller using the Windows Performance Counters.

Note: Out-of-the-box dashboards and navigators aren't supported for the Active Directory Domain Services receiver.

Get started

Follow these steps to configure and activate the component:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector to your Windows host: Install the Collector for Windows with the installer script.

  2. Configure the receiver as described in the next section.

  3. Restart the Collector.

Sample configuration

To activate the Active Directory Domain Services receiver, add active_directory_ds to the receivers section of your configuration file:

receivers:
      active_directory_ds:
        collection_interval: 10s
To complete the configuration, include the receiver in the metrics pipeline of the service section of your configuration file:
service:
      pipelines:
        metrics:
          receivers: [active_directory_ds]

Configuration options

The following settings are optional:

  • collection_interval. 10s by default. Sets the interval this receiver collects metrics on.

    • This value must be a string readable by Golang's time.ParseDuration. Learn more at Go's official documentation ParseDuration function .

    • Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h

  • initial_delay. 1s by default. Determines how long this receiver waits before collecting metrics for the first time.

Settings

The following table shows the configuration options for the Active Directory Domain Services receiver:

Included:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/splunk/collector-config-tools/main/cfg-metadata/receiver/active_directory_ds.yaml

Troubleshooting

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