The Internet Information Services (IIS) integration collects telemetry from your IIS web servers. The metrics provide connection information and also data on transferred bytes. The integration also collects information from access logs.
For more information on IIS, see the Internet Information Services documentation.
Before you begin
The Ops Agent version 2.15.0 introduces support for a new set of
IIS metrics using the workload.googleapis.com/
prefix. You
must configure the agent to collect these metrics, as described in
Example configuration.
The Ops Agent has always supported a limited set of IIS metrics;
these metrics use the agent.googleapis.com/iis/
prefix. No additional
configuration is needed to collect these metrics on Windows VMs.
This document refers to the agent
-prefixed metrics as the v1 metrics
and to the workload
-prefixed metrics as the v2 metrics.
For tables of these metrics, see What is monitored.
Starting with the Ops Agent version 2.15.0, you can configure the agent to collect v1 metrics, v2 metrics, or both.
Prerequisites
To collect IIS telemetry, you must install the Ops Agent:
- For metrics v1, install version 1.0.0 or higher.
- For metrics v2, install version 2.15.0 or higher
- For logs, install version 2.14.0 or higher.
This integration supports IIS versions 8.5 and 10.0.
Configure the Ops Agent for IIS
Following the guide to configure the Ops Agent, add the required elements to collect telemetry from IIS instances, and restart the agent.
Example configuration
The following command creates the configuration to collect and ingest telemetry for IIS and restarts the Ops Agent.
This receiver supports only the default W3C logging format.
Configure logs collection
To ingest access logs from IIS, you must create receivers for the logs and then create a pipeline for the new receivers.
To configure a receiver for your iis_access
logs, specify the following
fields:
Field | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
exclude_paths |
[] |
A list of filesystem path patterns to exclude from the set matched by include_paths . |
include_paths |
['C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex*'] |
A list of filesystem paths to read by tailing each file. A wild card (* ) can be used in the paths; for example, C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex* . |
type |
The value must be iis_access . |
|
record_log_file_path |
false |
If set to true , then the path to the specific file from which the log record was obtained appears in the output log entry as the value of the agent.googleapis.com/log_file_path label. When using a wildcard, only the path of the file from which the record was obtained is recorded. |
wildcard_refresh_interval |
60s |
The interval at which wildcard file paths in include_paths are refreshed. Specified as a time interval parsable by time.ParseDuration , for example 30s or 2m. This property might be useful under high logging throughputs where log files are rotated faster than the default interval. |
What is logged
The logName
is derived from the receiver IDs specified in the configuration.
Detailed fields inside the LogEntry
are as follows.
iis_access
logs contain the following fields in the LogEntry
:
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
httpRequest.referer |
string | Contents of the Referer header |
httpRequest.remoteIp |
string | IP of the client that made the request |
httpRequest.requestMethod |
string | HTTP method |
httpRequest.requestUrl |
string | Request URL (typically just the path part of the URL) |
httpRequest.serverIp |
string | The server's IP and port that was requested |
httpRequest.status |
number | HTTP status code |
httpRequest.userAgent |
string | Contents of the User-Agent header |
jsonPayload.sc_substatus |
number | The substatus error code |
jsonPayload.sc_win32_status |
number | The Windows status code |
jsonPayload.time_taken |
number | The length of time that the action took, in milliseconds |
jsonPayload.user |
string | Authenticated username for the request |
timestamp |
string (Timestamp ) |
Time the request was received |
Configure v1 metrics collection
The Ops Agent on a Microsoft Windows VM automatically collects IIS v1 metrics. No additional configuration is required. For information about collecting only v2 metrics, see Configure v2 metrics collection.
After you set up a new IIS instance, IIS might not immediately report any metrics. Using the Server Manager console that comes installed on Windows Server, you might see that your server has a status of Online - Performance Counters not started in the Manageability column.
One way to enable IIS to generate metrics is to right click on your IIS server in the Server Manager console and select Start Performance Counters. Your server should begin sending metrics to the Ops Agent.
Configure v2 metrics collection
To ingest v2 metrics from IIS, you must create a receiver for the metrics that IIS produces and then create a pipeline for the new receiver.
This receiver does not support the use of multiple instances in the configuration, for example, to monitor multiple endpoints. All such instances write to the same time series, and Cloud Monitoring has no way to distinguish among them.
To configure a receiver for your iis
metrics, specify the following
fields:
Field | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
collection_interval |
60s | A time.Duration value, such as 30s or 5m. |
receiver_version |
Version of the metrics collected; use 2 to collect v2 metrics. |
|
type |
This value must be iis . |
By default, the v1 metrics are collected automatically. You can either augment the v1 metrics by additionally collecting v2 metrics, or you can override the v1 metrics to collect only v2 metrics.
To collect only v2 metrics, do the following:
- Name your receiver
iis
. - Set the
type
field toiis
. - Set the
receiver_version
field to2
. - Use this receiver in your
default_pipeline
pipeline. This configuration overrides the built-in configuration of theiis
receiver.
- Name your receiver
To collect both v1 and v2 metrics, do the following:
- Name your receiver something other than
iis
, likeiis_v2
. - Set the
type
field toiis
. - Set the
receiver_version
to2
. - Use this receiver in your new pipeline. This configuration adds a v2 receiver rather than overriding the built-in receiver. The script in Example configuration uses this approach.
- Name your receiver something other than
What is monitored
Starting with version 2.15.0, the Ops Agent can collect two different sets of metrics:
- The v1 metrics:
agent.googleapis.com/iis/
. - The v2 metrics:
workload.googleapis.com/
.
V1 metrics
The following table provides the list of v1 metrics that the Ops Agent collects from the IIS instance.
The "metric type" strings in this table must be prefixed
with agent.googleapis.com/iis/
. That prefix has been
omitted from the entries in the table.
When querying a label, use the metric.labels.
prefix; for
example, metric.labels.LABEL="VALUE"
.
Metric type Launch stage Display name |
|
---|---|
Kind, Type, Unit Monitored resources |
Description Labels |
current_connections
GA
IIS open connections |
|
GAUGE , DOUBLE , 1
aws_ec2_instance gce_instance |
Currently open connections to IIS. Sampled every 60 seconds. |
network/transferred_bytes_count
GA
IIS transferred bytes |
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 , By
aws_ec2_instance gce_instance |
Network bytes transferred by IIS. Sampled every 60 seconds.
direction :
Direction (sent, received)
|
new_connection_count
GA
IIS connections |
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 , 1
aws_ec2_instance gce_instance |
Connections opened to IIS. Sampled every 60 seconds. |
request_count
GA
IIS requests |
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 , 1
aws_ec2_instance gce_instance |
Requests made to IIS. Sampled every 60 seconds.
http_method :
Http method (post, put, get, delete, option, trace, head)
|
Table generated at 2024-08-16 12:25:32 UTC.
V2 metrics
The following table provides the list of v2 metrics that the Ops Agent collects from the IIS instance.
Metric type | |
---|---|
Kind, Type Monitored resources |
Labels |
workload.googleapis.com/iis.connection.active
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.connection.anonymous
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.connection.attempt.count
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.network.blocked
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.network.file.count
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
direction
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.network.io
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
direction
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.request.count
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
request
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.request.queue.age.max
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.request.queue.count
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.request.rejected
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.thread.active
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/iis.uptime
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
Verify the configuration
This section describes how to verify that you correctly configured the IIS receiver. It might take one or two minutes for the Ops Agent to begin collecting telemetry.
To verify that IIS logs are being sent to Cloud Logging, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Logs Explorer page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Logging.
- Enter the following query in the editor, and then click Run query:
resource.type="gce_instance" log_id("iis_access")
To verify that IIS metrics are being sent to Cloud Monitoring, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the leaderboard Metrics explorer page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- In the toolbar of the query-builder pane, select the button whose name is either code MQL or code PromQL.
- Verify that MQL is selected in the Language toggle. The language toggle is in the same toolbar that lets you format your query.
- For v1 metrics, enter the following query in the editor, and then
click Run query:
fetch gce_instance | metric 'agent.googleapis.com/iis/request_count' | every 1m
- For v2 metrics, enter the following query in the editor, and then
click Run:
fetch gce_instance | metric 'workload.googleapis.com/iis.request.count' | every 1m
View dashboard
To view your IIS metrics, you must have a chart or dashboard configured. The IIS integration includes one or more dashboards for you. Any dashboards are automatically installed after you configure the integration and the Ops Agent has begun collecting metric data.
You can also view static previews of dashboards without installing the integration.
To view an installed dashboard, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the
Dashboards page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- Select the Dashboard List tab, and then choose the Integrations category.
- Click the name of the dashboard you want to view.
If you have configured an integration but the dashboard has not been installed, then check that the Ops Agent is running. When there is no metric data for a chart in the dashboard, installation of the dashboard fails. After the Ops Agent begins collecting metrics, the dashboard is installed for you.
To view a static preview of the dashboard, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the
Integrations page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- Click the Compute Engine deployment-platform filter.
- Locate the entry for IIS and click View Details.
- Select the Dashboards tab to see a static preview. If the dashboard is installed, then you can navigate to it by clicking View dashboard.
For more information about dashboards in Cloud Monitoring, see Dashboards and charts.
For more information about using the Integrations page, see Manage integrations.
Install alerting policies
Alerting policies instruct Cloud Monitoring to notify you when specified conditions occur. The IIS integration includes one or more alerting policies for you to use. You can view and install these alerting policies from the Integrations page in Monitoring.
To view the descriptions of available alerting policies and install them, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the
Integrations page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- Locate the entry for IIS and click View Details.
- Select the Alerts tab. This tab provides descriptions of available alerting policies and provides an interface for installing them.
- Install alerting policies. Alerting policies need
to know where to send notifications that the alert has been
triggered, so they require information from you for installation.
To install alerting policies, do the following:
- From the list of available alerting policies, select those that you want to install.
In the Configure notifications section, select one or more notification channels. You have the option to disable the use of notification channels, but if you do, then your alerting policies fire silently. You can check their status in Monitoring, but you receive no notifications.
For more information about notification channels, see Manage notification channels.
- Click Create Policies.
For more information about alerting policies in Cloud Monitoring, see Introduction to alerting.
For more information about using the Integrations page, see Manage integrations.
What's next
For a walkthrough on how to use Ansible to install the Ops Agent, configure a third-party application, and install a sample dashboard, see the Install the Ops Agent to troubleshoot third-party applications video.