Getting Data In

perfmon for physicaldisk

mlevenson
Explorer

[PERFMON:PhysicalDisk]

interval = 15

object = PhysicalDisk

counters = Disk Writes/sec; Disk Reads/sec; % Disk Read Time; % Disk Write Time; % Disk Time

disabled = 0

instances = "1 D:"

index = perfmon_disk

when I have instances = * it works just fine but I want just the D drive.

What is below is what i get from the splunk interface.

(instance="1 D:")

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mlevenson
Explorer

I only want the perf data from a single drive IE the D-drive not all drives and not the total.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What's the question?

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