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W32Time

The W32Time collector monitors the local Windows Time Service through Windows Performance Data Helper counters. It does not execute or parse w32tm output.

Configuration¶

Preconditions¶

Windows Server 2016 or later, Windows 10 Anniversary Update or later, or Windows 11
64-bit DataKit for Windows (windows/amd64)
The Windows Time (W32Time) service is registered; no separate installation of w32tm or another program is required

When the W32Time service is not running, the collector still reports service_running=0. Other time synchronization fields are reported only when the service is running and the corresponding performance counters are available.

Collector Configuration¶

Go to the conf.d/samples directory under the DataKit installation directory, copy w32time.conf.sample and name it w32time.conf. The configuration is as follows:

[[inputs.w32time]]
  ## Collect interval, default is 60 seconds.
  interval = "60s"

[inputs.w32time.tags]
  # some_tag = "some_value"
  # more_tag = "some_other_value"

After configuration, restart DataKit.

Metric¶

`w32time`¶

Tags & Fields	Description
host (`tag`)	Host name.
computed_time_offset	Absolute offset between the system clock and the time source selected by W32Time, in seconds. Type: float \| (gauge) Unit: time,s
ntp_client_source_count	Number of active NTP time source addresses responding to the Windows NTP client. Type: int \| (gauge) Unit: count
ntp_roundtrip_delay	Most recent NTP client round-trip delay reported by W32Time, in seconds. Type: float \| (gauge) Unit: time,s
service_running	Whether the Windows Time Service is running. A value of 1 means running and 0 means stopped. Type: int \| (gauge) Unit: N/A