# Microsoft IIS Receiver

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> OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The Microsoft IIS Receiver grabs metrics about an IIS instance using the Windows Performance Counters. Because of this, it is a Windows only receiver.

- **Component ID**: `contrib-iisreceiver`
- **Name**: `iisreceiver`
- **Type**: receiver
- **Distribution**: contrib
- **Repository**: `opentelemetry-collector-contrib`

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| beta | metrics |

## Attributes

| Attribute | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `direction` | string | The direction data is moving. |
| `request` | string | The type of request sent by a client. |

## Data

- **JSON**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-iisreceiver/contrib-iisreceiver-bf79d264b052.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-iisreceiver/contrib-iisreceiver-bf79d264b052.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/iisreceiver](/collector/components/contrib/iisreceiver)