Microsoft Windows IIS (deprecated)

Use this Splunk Observability Cloud integration for the Windows IIS monitor. See benefits, install, configuration, and metrics

CAUTION: This integration is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. During this period only critical security and bug fixes are provided. When End of Support is reached, the monitor will be removed and no longer be supported, and you won’t be able to use it to send data to Splunk Observability Cloud. To forward IIS metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud, use the IIS receiver instead.

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the windows-iis monitor type to report metrics for Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) and drive the Windows IIS dashboard content.

Windows Performance Counters are the underlying source for these metrics. Most of the performance counters queried are actually gauges that represent rates per second and percentages. This integration reports the instantaneous values for these Windows Performance Counters. This means that in between a collection interval, spikes could occur on the Performance Counters. The best way to mitigate this limitation is to increase the reporting interval on this monitor to collect more frequently.

This integration is only available on Windows.

Benefits

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud.
View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Use navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Search the Metric Finder and Metadata Catalog.

Installation

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host:
- Install on Windows
Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.
Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.
Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.
- See how to Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.
- See how to set up the Smart Agent receiver.
- For a list of common configuration options, refer to Common configuration settings for monitors.
- Learn more about the Collector at Get started: Understand and use the Collector.

Example

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/windows-iis:
    type: windows-iis
    ...  # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service.pipelines.metrics.receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/windows-iis]

Configuration settings

The following table shows the configuration options for the windows-iis monitor:


Option	Required	Type	Description
`counterRefreshInterval`	no	`int64`	Number of seconds that wildcards in counter paths should be expanded and how often to refresh counters from configuration. (default: `60s`)
`printValid`	no	`bool`	Print out the configurations that match available performance counters. This option is used for debugging. (default: `false`)

Metrics

The following metrics are available for this integration:

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Notes

To learn more about the available in Splunk Observability Cloud see Metric types.
In host-based subscription plans, default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Splunk Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See Metric categories for more information.
In MTS-based subscription plans, all metrics are custom.
To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics in Add additional metrics.

Troubleshooting

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal.
Contact Splunk Support.

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers.
Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups.

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