# Windows Service Receiver

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> OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

The Windows Service Receiver is a receiver for scraping information about the state of services running on a Windows machine.

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

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| alpha | metrics |

## Attributes

| Attribute | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | string | The name of the windows Service being reported. |
| `startup_mode` | string | Startup mode of Windows Service |

## Data

- **JSON**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-windowsservicereceiver/contrib-windowsservicereceiver-27c9168ac819.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-windowsservicereceiver/contrib-windowsservicereceiver-27c9168ac819.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/windowsservicereceiver](/collector/components/contrib/windowsservicereceiver)