Measuring planned downtime of a service

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Greetings :slight_smile:

We use Kibana 7.8 to measure the uptime of a windows service. We can calculate the percentage as well as the number of hours a windows service has been up or down. But when such a service is shut down we are not able to differentiate whether the shut down was planned or unplanned. We'd like to exclude the planned downtime while calculating the uptime percentages. I am not sure if it is possible to differentiate this in Kibana. Any help is this direction appreciated!

Thanks
Joseph

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How are you doing the calculations at the moment?

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Metricbeat set to send data at 20sec frequency. Added a field in metricbeat config like "windows_service_State_number" that will send a 1 if the service is up and 0 if it is down. Over a period of time if we take all this data and sum them, we get the numerator x and a count of all the data will form the denominator y. x/y will give the % of uptime for the service. E.g. for a 10 minute period we'll have y = 30. If the service was up for 9 minutes then we'll get x = 27. So uptime is 27/30. We don't worry if a service goes down and comes up within a period less than 20sec.

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