# Monitoring Windows services

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/monitoring-windows-services/1591>\
**Category:** Telegraf\
**Created:** [July 11, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/monitoring-windows-services/1591 "2017-07-11T17:46:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jregovich](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jregovich/32/1730_2.png) [@jregovich](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jregovich)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/monitoring-windows-services/1591/1 "2017-07-11T17:46:06Z")

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Can Telegraf report on a Windows service? I can’t find anything in the plugins that suggests that I could have Telegraf get data on a service rather than a process. Am I looking in the wrong place?

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**Author:** ![jackzampolin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/jackzampolin/32/5_2.png) [@jackzampolin](https://community.influxdata.com/u/jackzampolin)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/monitoring-windows-services/1591/2 "2017-07-12T14:36:36Z")

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@jregovich While I’m not the most Windows-literate, (🙊) it looks like if the service [exposes win\_perf\_counters](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters) then you can.