IIS OpenTelemetry Assets

Internet Information Services (IIS) is Microsoft's extensible web server for Windows, used to host websites, web applications, and services such as ASP.NET, WCF, and static content. It is the primary HTTP server on the Windows platform.

This content pack provides dashboards, alert rules, and SLO templates that use metrics from the OpenTelemetry IIS receiver. The assets cover application pool health, request handling capacity, traffic patterns, and resource utilization.

The IIS OpenTelemetry assets have been tested with OpenTelemetry IIS receiver v0.146.1.

IIS tested against:

• IIS 10.0 (Windows Server 2016/2019/2022)

You need Elasticsearch for storing and searching your data and Kibana for visualizing and managing it. You can use our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, which is recommended, or self-manage the Elastic Stack on your own hardware.

IIS must be running on the Windows host where you deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector. The collector uses Windows Performance Counters to gather IIS metrics, so the counters must be accessible.

To verify IIS is running:

Get-Service W3SVC

To list available web service counters:

Get-Counter -ListSet "Web Service"

If counters are corrupted or missing, rebuild them:

lodctr /r

Add the following configuration to your OpenTelemetry Collector or Elastic Observability Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) Collector. The IIS receiver runs on the Windows host that runs IIS; it collects metrics from local performance counters and exports them to Elasticsearch.

receivers:
  iis:
    collection_interval: 30s

processors:
  resourcedetection/system:
    detectors: ["system"]
    system:
      hostname_sources: ["os"]

exporters:
  elasticsearch/otel:
    endpoints: [ '<ES_ENDPOINT>' ]
    api_key: '${env:ES_API_KEY}'
    mapping:
      mode: otel

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [ iis ]
      processors: [ resourcedetection/system ]
      exporters: [ elasticsearch/otel ]

The resourcedetection/system processor is required to populate host information (resource.attributes.host.name) used by the dashboards. Without it, host-level fields will be empty.

Refer to the metadata.yaml of the OpenTelemetry IIS receiver for details on available metrics.

This integration includes one or more Kibana dashboards that visualizes the data collected by the integration. The screenshots below illustrate how the ingested data is displayed.