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
• thermalzone

Run windows_exporter with these collectors:

windows_exporter-0.16.0-amd64.exe --collectors.enabled="cpu,memory,net,logical_disk,os,system,logon,thermalzone"

Installation: please follow the official guide.

Requirements

• windows_exporter version 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

os

• Processes in number
• Users in users
• Visible Memory Usage in bytes
• Paging Files Usage in bytes

system

• Threads in number
• Uptime in seconds

logon

• Active User Logon Sessions By Type in sessions

thermalzone

• Thermal zone temperature in celsius

Configuration

Edit the go.d/wmi.conf configuration file using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/wmi.conf

Needs only url to windows_exporter metrics endpoint. Here is an example for 2 instances:

jobs:
  - name: win_server1
    url: http://203.0.113.10:9182/metrics

  - name: win_server2
    url: http://203.0.113.11:9182/metrics

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.

cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
sudo -u netdata -s

You can now run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector:

./go.d.plugin -d -m wmi