Monitoring basic metrics from windows

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Hi there!

I’m using O.S Windows and I’d like to monitor Windows Server.

I’d like to know a simple way to configurate the Grafana to get basic matrics from Windows Server.

A had some difficult to configurate the Grafana Agent by the web site tutorial.

Thank you,

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Welcome

Which web site tutorial did you use?

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I’ve started with this tutorial that shows the instalation of Grafana Agent:

But I’m getting some doubts in the configuration.

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I would go with this one with windows exporter

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Thanks, Yosiasz!

I followed these steps and i got the dashboad. But it’s showing ‘no data’ menssage.
I noticed that Prometheus isn’t viewing the Windows Exporter, dispite the YML is configurated to see it.

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@sistemati hi :wave:

How does your prometheus.yaml looks like? Here is mine.

- job_name: "my_node"

static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9182']

Double check if the endpoint is active by visiting http://localhost:{yourPort}/metrics

Double check that the target shows up in prometheus http://localhost:9090/targets

Could you edit one of those panels that use Prometheus and share the query? You might need to change a variable such as “$server” to “localhost:9182”. (in my case the endpoint is 9182)

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Hi!

This is part of prometheus.yaml :

scrape_configs:
  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
  
    # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
    # scheme defaults to 'http'.

- job_name: "prometheus"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:9090"]

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

The Prometheus and Windows Server pages metrics are working.

When I try to edit the panel I don’t get to see the parameters from Prometheus or Windows Exporter. I think that it’s because the Prometheus aren’t seeing the Windows Exporter.

When I enter in the Prometheus targets it just has itself, Windows Exporter do not appears.

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here’s another exporter for windows that you could try

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I’m using this one. WMI Exporter.