How can we determine the overall percentage of memory utilization on a Windows server?

[tangtangtang12]

I've read through some of the Splunk documentation and previously one of my colleagues already configured the "Windows server health" content pack, but when I check the "OS:Performance.WIN.Memory" I only see 4 metrics and cannot get the overall % memory utilization because I do not have the total amount to begin with.

These are the only metrics I have:

Available_MBytes

Cache_Bytes

Page_Reads/sec

Install and configure the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows - Splunk Documentation

[livehybrid]

Hi @tangtangtang12 

I presume you are using ITSI/ITEW which is where you have installed the content pack?

The content pack is only KPIs and relies on specific data to be available - The content pack itself does not onboard the data.

Please check out the docs around the content pack data requirements here: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CPWindowsMon/latest/CP/DataReqs

That docs page gives an inputs.conf sample and other info about the data required for these KPIs to run, including the metrics you are looking for.

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[gcusello]

Hi @tangtangtang12 ,

whichAdd-On are you using to extract these information from your windows server?

is you use the Splunk_TA_Window ( https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/742 ) there's two inputs (disabled by default and to enable) that you can use:

• [WinHostMon://Computer]
• [perfmon://Memory]
  • Page Faults/sec;
  • Available Bytes;
  • Committed Bytes;
  • Commit Limit;
  • Write Copies/sec;
  • Transition Faults/sec;
  • Cache Faults/sec;
  • Demand Zero Faults/sec;
  • Pages/sec;
  • Pages Input/sec;
  • Page Reads/sec;
  • Pages Output/sec;
  • Pool Paged Bytes;
  • Pool Nonpaged Bytes;
  • Page Writes/sec;
  • Pool Paged Allocs;
  • Pool Nonpaged Allocs;
  • Free System Page Table Entries;
  • Cache Bytes;
  • Cache Bytes Peak;
  • Pool Paged Resident Bytes;
  • System Code Total Bytes;
  • System Code Resident Bytes;
  • System Driver Total Bytes;
  • System Driver Resident Bytes;
  • System Cache Resident Bytes;
  • % Committed Bytes In Use;
  • Available KBytes;
  • Available MBytes;
  • Transition Pages RePurposed/sec;
  • Free & Zero Page List Bytes;
  • Modified Page List Bytes;
  • Standby Cache Reserve Bytes;
  • Standby Cache Normal Priority Bytes;
  • Standby Cache Core Bytes;
  • Long-Term Average Standby Cache Lifetime (s)

Ciao.

Giuseppe