IIS receiver

Grabs metrics about an IIS instance using Windows Performance Counters.

The IIS receiver grabs metrics from an IIS instance using Windows Performance Counters. The supported pipeline type is metrics. See Process your data with pipelines for more information.

Get started

Note: This component is only available for the Collector for Windows.

Follow these steps to configure and activate the receiver:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector in your Windows platform as described in
Install the Collector for Windows with the installer script.
Configure the IIS receiver as described in the next section.
Restart the Collector.

Sample configurations

To activate the IIS receiver, add iss to the receivers section of your configuration file, as in the following sample configuration.

receivers:
  iis:
    collection_interval: 10s
    initial_delay: 1s

Additional settings

The IIS receiver has two optional settings:

collection_interval. 10s by default. The interval at which the receiver emits metrics.
initial_delay. 1s by default. Defines how long this receiver waits before starting.

Settings

The following table shows the configuration options for the Jaeger receiver:

Metrics

To see the available metrics, resource attributes, and attributes refer to IIS default metrics in GitHub.

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

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