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Windows Exporter

Installation

This will be only available for install in Windows machines.

  • Download windows_exporter from here

    Select the latest version and the file name will be like this: windows_exporter-XX.YY.ZZ-amd64.msi Copy the file in a folder like C:\monitoring\windows_exporter

  • Create a file for windows_exporter (See below)

  • Install Windows Exporter as a service

    Open command line as Administrator

    Terminal window
    msiexec /i C:\monitoring\windows_exporter\windows_exporter-XX.YY.ZZ-amd64.msi EXTRA_FLAGS="--config.file=C:\monitoring\windows_exporter\wmi.yaml"

  • Make sure service is started

    • Press ⊞ Win + R
    • Type services.msc and press Enter
    • Check windows_exporter service is Running and Automatic
    • You can also run the following from from an open command line as Administrator
    Terminal window
    sc start windows_exporter

Configuration

A Prometheus exporter for Windows machines.

You can see a list of available collectors here

wmi.yaml

# Comma separated list of the enabled collectors
collectors:
  enabled: cpu,cs,logical_disk,logon,memory,net,os,process,service,system,tcp,thermalzone
# You can only collect specific services like this:
collector:
  service:
    services-where: "Name='windows_exporter' OR Name='prometheus"

Add below job under scrape_configs on your prometheus configuration.

prometheus.yaml

  - job_name: "windows_exporter"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:9182"]