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Bug? Logical Disk Performance counter ingest NULL instead of Zero (0)

Andre_
Communicator

Hello,

we encountered a situation today where a monitored Windows Drive disappeared from Spunk.

The drive had become completely full, 0 bytes free and 0% free space.

|mstats -> drive does show up in results anymore

 

We've reproduced the issue in a lab and every time the disk goes to 0 it disappears.
We've compared the performance counters in the metric index with what powershell shows locally using get-counter. Powershell returns 0 (not NULL)

Looking at available perfmon counters for logical disk, we found one counter that has a not 0 value "% Idle Time" - we've added that to the inputs.conf and mstats SPL

Once this was complete we could see that all other fields for the disk with 0 bytes free were NULL instead of 0 (Zero)

"% Free Space" and ""Free Megabytes" should be 0 (zero) not NULL when they are 0

Anyone else had this issue before?

Kind Regards

Andre 

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Andre_
Communicator

Not a bug.

opened a support case and there is a showZeroValue = 1 option for the inputs.conf stanza.

Default is 0, once set to 1, Zero Values are being recorded as 0.

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Andre_
Communicator

Not a bug.

opened a support case and there is a showZeroValue = 1 option for the inputs.conf stanza.

Default is 0, once set to 1, Zero Values are being recorded as 0.

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