A Prometheus exporter for Windows machines.

See the linked documentation on each collector for more information on reported metrics, configuration settings and usage examples.

The windows_exporter will expose all metrics from enabled collectors by default. This is the recommended way to collect metrics to avoid errors when comparing metrics of different families.

For advanced use the windows_exporter can be passed an optional list of collectors to filter metrics. The collect[] parameter may be used multiple times. In Prometheus configuration you can use this syntax under the scrape config.

  params:
    collect[]:
      - foo
      - bar

This can be useful for having different Prometheus servers collect specific metrics from nodes.

windows_exporter accepts flags to configure certain behaviours. The ones configuring the global behaviour of the exporter are listed below, while collector-specific ones are documented in the respective collector documentation above.

The latest release can be downloaded from the releases page.

Each release provides a .msi installer. The installer will setup the windows_exporter as a Windows service, as well as create an exception in the Windows Firewall.

If the installer is run without any parameters, the exporter will run with default settings for enabled collectors, ports, etc. The following parameters are available:

Parameters are sent to the installer via msiexec. Example invocations:

msiexec /i <path-to-msi-file> ENABLED_COLLECTORS=os,iis LISTEN_PORT=5000

Example service collector with a custom query.

msiexec /i <path-to-msi-file> ENABLED_COLLECTORS=os,service --% EXTRA_FLAGS="--collector.service.services-where ""Name LIKE 'sql%'"""

On some older versions of Windows you may need to surround parameter values with double quotes to get the install command parsing properly:

msiexec /i C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\windows_exporter.msi ENABLED_COLLECTORS="ad,iis,logon,memory,process,tcp,thermalzone" TEXTFILE_DIR="C:\custom_metrics\"

windows_exporter supports Windows Server versions 2008R2 and later, and desktop Windows version 7 and later.

go get -u github.com/prometheus/promu
go get -u github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter
cd $env:GOPATH/src/github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter
promu build -v
.\windows_exporter.exe

The prometheus metrics will be exposed on localhost:9182

.\windows_exporter.exe --collectors.enabled "service" --collector.service.services-where "Name='windows_exporter'"

.\windows_exporter.exe --collectors.enabled "process" --collector.process.whitelist="firefox.+"

When there are multiple processes with the same name, WMI represents those after the first instance as process-name#index. So to get them all, rather than just the first one, the regular expression must use .+. See process for more information.

YAML configuration files can be specified with the --config.file flag. E.G. .\windows_exporter.exe --config.file=config.yml

collectors:
  enabled: cpu,cs,net,service
collector:
  service:
    services-where: "Name='windows_exporter'"
log:
  level: warn

An example configuration file can be found here.

Configuration file values can be mixed with CLI flags. E.G.

.\windows_exporter.exe --collectors.enabled=cpu,logon

log:
  level: debug

CLI flags enjoy a higher priority over values specified in the configuration file.

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