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prometheus.exporter.windows
The prometheus.exporter.windows
component embeds
windows_exporter which exposes a
wide variety of hardware and OS metrics for Windows-based systems.
The windows_exporter
itself comprises various collectors, which can be
enabled and disabled at will. For more information on collectors, refer to the
collectors-list
section.
Usage
prometheus.exporter.windows "LABEL" {
}
Arguments
The following arguments can be used to configure the exporter’s behavior. All arguments are optional. Omitted fields take their default values.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
enabled_collectors | list(string) | List of collectors to enable. | ["cpu","cs","logical_disk","net","os","service","system"] | no |
timeout | duration | Configure timeout for collecting metrics. | 4m | no |
enabled_collectors
defines a hand-picked list of enabled-by-default
collectors. If set, anything not provided in that list is disabled by
default. See the Collectors list for the default set.
Blocks
The following blocks are supported inside the definition of
prometheus.exporter.windows
to configure collector-specific options:
Hierarchy | Name | Description | Required |
---|---|---|---|
dfsr | dfsr | Configures the dfsr collector. | no |
exchange | exchange | Configures the exchange collector. | no |
iis | iis | Configures the iis collector. | no |
logical_disk | logical_disk | Configures the logical_disk collector. | no |
msmq | msmq | Configures the msmq collector. | no |
mssql | mssql | Configures the mssql collector. | no |
network | network | Configures the network collector. | no |
process | process | Configures the process collector. | no |
scheduled_task | [scheduled_task][] | Configures the scheduled_task collector. | no |
service | service | Configures the service collector. | no |
smtp | smtp | Configures the smtp collector. | no |
text_file | text_file | Configures the text_file collector. | no |
dfsr block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
source_enabled | list(string) | Comma-separated list of DFSR Perflib sources to use. | ["connection","folder","volume"] | no |
exchange block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
enabled_list | string | Comma-separated list of collectors to use. | "" | no |
The collectors specified by enabled_list
can include the following:
ADAccessProcesses
TransportQueues
HttpProxy
ActiveSync
AvailabilityService
OutlookWebAccess
Autodiscover
WorkloadManagement
RpcClientAccess
For example, enabled_list
may be set to "AvailabilityService,OutlookWebAccess"
.
iis block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
app_blacklist | string | Regular expression of applications to ignore. | no | |
app_whitelist | string | Regular expression of applications to report on. | no | |
site_blacklist | string | Regular expression of sites to ignore. | no | |
site_whitelist | string | Regular expression of sites to report on. | no |
text_file block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
text_file_directory | string | The directory containing the files to be ingested. | C:\Program Files\windows_exporter\textfile_inputs | no |
When text_file_directory
is set, only files with the extension .prom
inside the specified directory are read. Each .prom
file found must end with an empty line feed to work properly.
smtp block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
blacklist | string | Regexp of virtual servers to ignore. | no | |
whitelist | string | Regexp of virtual servers to include. | ".+" | no |
For a server name to be included, it must match the regular expression specified by whitelist
and must not match the regular expression specified by blacklist
.
service block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
where_clause | string | WQL ‘where’ clause to use in WMI metrics query. | no |
The where_clause
argument can be used to limit the response to the services you specify, reducing the size of the response.
process block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
blacklist | string | Regular expression of processes to exclude. | no | |
whitelist | string | Regular expression of processes to include. | ".*" | no |
Processes must match the regular expression specified by whitelist
and must not match the regular expression specified by blacklist
to be included.
network block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
blacklist | string | Regular expression of NIC:s to exclude. | no | |
whitelist | string | Regular expression of NIC:s to include. | ".*" | no |
NIC names must match the regular expression specified by whitelist
and must not match the regular expression specified by blacklist
to be included.
mssql block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
enabled_classes | list(string) | Comma-separated list of MSSQL WMI classes to use. | ["accessmethods", "availreplica", "bufman", "databases", "dbreplica", "genstats", "locks", "memmgr", "sqlstats", "sqlerrorstransactions"] | no |
msmq block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
where_clause | string | WQL ‘where’ clause to use in WMI metrics query. | no |
Specifying enabled_classes
is useful to limit the response to the MSMQs you specify, reducing the size of the response.
logical_disk block
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
blacklist | string | Regular expression of volumes to exclude. | no | |
whitelist | string | Regular expression of volumes to include. | ".+" | no |
Volume names must match the regular expression specified by whitelist
and must not match the regular expression specified by blacklist
to be included.
Exported fields
The following fields are exported and can be referenced by other components.
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
targets | list(map(string)) | The targets that can be used to collect exporter metrics. |
For example, the targets
can either be passed to a discovery.relabel
component to rewrite the targets’ label sets, or to a prometheus.scrape
component that collects the exposed metrics.
The exported targets will use the configured in-memory traffic address specified by the run command.
Component health
prometheus.exporter.windows
is only reported as unhealthy if given
an invalid configuration. In those cases, exported fields retain their last
healthy values.
Debug information
prometheus.exporter.windows
does not expose any component-specific
debug information.
Debug metrics
prometheus.exporter.windows
does not expose any component-specific
debug metrics.
Collectors list
The following table lists the available collectors that windows_exporter
brings
bundled in. Some collectors only work on specific operating systems; enabling a
collector that is not supported by the host OS where Flow is running
is a no-op.
Users can choose to enable a subset of collectors to limit the amount of
metrics exposed by the prometheus.exporter.windows
component,
or disable collectors that are expensive to run.
Name | Description | Enabled by default |
---|---|---|
ad | Active Directory Domain Services | |
adfs | Active Directory Federation Services | |
cache | Cache metrics | |
cpu | CPU usage | ✓ |
cpu_info | CPU Information | |
cs | “Computer System” metrics (system properties, num cpus/total memory) | ✓ |
container | Container metrics | |
dfsr | DFSR metrics | |
dhcp | DHCP Server | |
dns | DNS Server | |
exchange | Exchange metrics | |
fsrmquota | Microsoft File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Quotas collector | |
hyperv | Hyper-V hosts | |
iis | IIS sites and applications | |
logical_disk | Logical disks, disk I/O | ✓ |
logon | User logon sessions | |
memory | Memory usage metrics | |
msmq | MSMQ queues | |
mssql | SQL Server Performance Objects metrics | |
netframework_clrexceptions | .NET Framework CLR Exceptions | |
netframework_clrinterop | .NET Framework Interop Metrics | |
netframework_clrjit | .NET Framework JIT metrics | |
netframework_clrloading | .NET Framework CLR Loading metrics | |
netframework_clrlocksandthreads | .NET Framework locks and metrics threads | |
netframework_clrmemory | .NET Framework Memory metrics | |
netframework_clrremoting | .NET Framework Remoting metrics | |
netframework_clrsecurity | .NET Framework Security Check metrics | |
net | Network interface I/O | ✓ |
os | OS metrics (memory, processes, users) | ✓ |
process | Per-process metrics | |
remote_fx | RemoteFX protocol (RDP) metrics | |
service | Service state metrics | ✓ |
smtp | IIS SMTP Server | |
system | System calls | ✓ |
tcp | TCP connections | |
time | Windows Time Service | |
thermalzone | Thermal information | |
terminal_services | Terminal services (RDS) | |
textfile | Read prometheus metrics from a text file | |
vmware | Performance counters installed by the Vmware Guest agent |
See the linked documentation on each collector for more information on reported metrics, configuration settings and usage examples.
Example
This example uses a prometheus.scrape
component to collect metrics
from prometheus.exporter.windows
:
prometheus.exporter.windows "default" {
}
// Configure a prometheus.scrape component to collect windows metrics.
prometheus.scrape "example" {
targets = prometheus.exporter.windows.this.targets
forward_to = [ /* ... */ ]
}