Libre Hardware Monitor

Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for processors, temperatures, fans, voltages, GPU, memory modules, physical disk of a computer.

hardware windows

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• Director61NT

Target

Typical platform: Microsoft Windows

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Leverages: Libre Hardware Monitor

Technology and protocols: WMI

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +LibreHardwareMonitor --wmi -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +LibreHardwareMonitor ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Libre Hardware Monitor connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The device type must be one of: NT
• The WMI query below succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\LibreHardwareMonitor
  • Query: SELECT Name FROM WMINET_InstrumentedAssembly

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
cpu	hw.cpu.speed hw.energy{hw.type="cpu"} hw.power{hw.type="cpu"} hw.status{hw.type="cpu", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model name type vendor
fan	hw.fan.speed hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
gpu	hw.energy{hw.type="gpu"} hw.gpu.io{direction="receive"} hw.gpu.io{direction="transmit"} hw.gpu.memory.limit hw.gpu.memory.utilization hw.gpu.utilization{task="decoder"} hw.gpu.utilization{task="encoder"} hw.gpu.utilization{task="general"} hw.power{hw.type="gpu"} hw.status{hw.type="gpu", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name vendor
memory	hw.memory.limit hw.status{hw.type="memory", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
physical_disk	hw.physical_disk.endurance_utilization{state="remaining"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name vendor
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"} hw.temperature hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.critical"} hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.degraded"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location
voltage	hw.status{hw.type="voltage", state="present"} hw.voltage	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location