Windows machine monitoring with Netdata
This module will monitor one or more Windows machines, using the windows_exporter.
Module collects metrics from the following collectors:
- cpu
- memory
- net
- logical_disk
- os
- system
- logon
Run windowns_exporter with these collectors:
windows_exporter-0.13.0-amd64.exe --collectors.enabled="cpu,memory,net,logical_disk,os,system,logon"
Installation: please follow the official guide.
Requirements#
windows_exporterversion v0.13.0+
Charts#
cpu#
- Total CPU Utilization (all cores) in
percentage - Received and Serviced Deferred Procedure Calls (DPC) in
dpc/c - Received and Serviced Hardware Interrupts in
interrupts/s - CPU Utilization Per Core in
percentage - Time Spent in Low-Power Idle State Per Core in
percentage
memory#
- Memory Utilization in
KiB - Memory Page Faults in
events/s - Swap Utilization in
KiB - Swap Operations in
operations/s - Swap Pages in
pages/s - Cached Data in
KiB - Cache Faults in
events/s - System Memory Pool in
KiB
network#
- Bandwidth Per NIC in
kilobits/s - Packets Per NIC in
packets/s - Errors Per NIC in
errors/s - Discards Per NIC in
discards/s
disk#
- Utilization Per Disk in
KiB - Bandwidth Per Disk in
KiB/s - Operations Per Disk in
operations/s - Average Read/Write Latency Disk in
milliseconds
system#
- Processes in
number - Threads in
number - Uptime in
seconds
logon#
- Active User Logon Sessions By Type in
sessions
Configuration#
Edit the go.d/wmi.conf configuration file using edit-config from the
Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.
Needs only url to windows_exporter metrics endpoint. Here is an example for 2 instances:
For all available options please see module configuration file.
Troubleshooting#
To troubleshoot issues with the wmi collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should
give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.
First, navigate to your plugins directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your
system, open netdata.conf and look for the setting plugins directory. Once you're in the plugin's directory, switch
to the netdata user.
You can now run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector: