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Systemd Receiver

OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The Systemd Receiver gathers metrics for locally running systemd units.

Component ID: contrib-systemdreceiver
Name: systemdreceiver
Type: receiver
Distribution: contrib
Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

Level	Signals
alpha	metrics

Metrics

Metric	Type	Value type	Unit	Stability	Enabled	Attributes	Description
`systemd.service.cpu.time`	sum (monotonic)	int	us	development	yes	`cpu.mode` (string)	Total CPU time spent by this service.
`systemd.service.memory.usage`	sum	int	By	development	yes		Bytes of memory in use by this service.
`systemd.service.memory.usage.max`	sum	int	By	development	yes		Maximum memory used by this service, in bytes.
`systemd.service.restarts`	sum (monotonic)	int	{restarts}	development	no		Number of automatic restarts for the service. This exposes services' `NRestarts` property as a metric. This only tracks automatic service restarts (restarts when the process exits), and does not include manual restarts (e.g. from `systemctl restart`).
`systemd.unit.state`	sum	int	1	alpha	yes	`systemd.unit.active_state` (string)	1 if the check resulted in active_state matching the current state, otherwise 0.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
`cpu.mode`	string	Breakdown of CPU usage by type.
`systemd.unit.active_state`	string	The active state of the unit (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.html#Units)

Data

JSON (latest): /data/collector/components/contrib-systemdreceiver/latest.json
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