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Nvidia SMI

Overview​

The Nvidia SMI (System Management Interface) plugin uses a query on the nvidia-smi binary to pull GPU stats including memory and GPU usage, temp and other.

Configuration​

# Pulls statistics from nvidia GPUs attached to the host
[[inputs.nvidia_smi]]
  ## Optional: path to nvidia-smi binary, defaults to $PATH via exec.LookPath
  # bin_path = "/usr/bin/nvidia-smi"

  ## Optional: timeout for GPU polling
  # timeout = "5s"

Windows​

On Windows, nvidia-smi is generally located at C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvidia-smi.exe On Windows 10, you may also find this located here C:\Windows\System32\nvidia-smi.exe

You'll need to escape the \ within the circonus-unified-agent.conf like this: C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA Corporation\\NVSMI\\nvidia-smi.exe

Troubleshooting​

Check the full output by running nvidia-smi binary manually.

Linux:

sudo -u cua -- /usr/bin/nvidia-smi -q -x

Windows:

"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvidia-smi.exe" -q -x

Please include the output of this command if opening an GitHub issue.

Limitations​

Note that there seems to be an issue with getting current memory clock values when the memory is overclocked. This may or may not apply to everyone but it's confirmed to be an issue on an EVGA 2080 Ti.