windows_exporter/README.md

# windows_exporter

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A Prometheus exporter for Windows machines.


## Collectors

Name     | Description | Enabled by default
---------|-------------|--------------------
[ad](docs/collector.ad.md) | Active Directory Domain Services |
[adcs](docs/collector.adcs.md) | Active Directory Certificate Services |
[adfs](docs/collector.adfs.md) | Active Directory Federation Services |
[cache](docs/collector.cache.md) | Cache metrics |
[cpu](docs/collector.cpu.md) | CPU usage | ✓
[cpu_info](docs/collector.cpu_info.md) | CPU Information |
[cs](docs/collector.cs.md) | "Computer System" metrics (system properties, num cpus/total memory) | ✓
[container](docs/collector.container.md) | Container metrics |
[dfsr](docs/collector.dfsr.md) | DFSR metrics |
[dhcp](docs/collector.dhcp.md) | DHCP Server |
[dns](docs/collector.dns.md) | DNS Server |
[exchange](docs/collector.exchange.md) | Exchange metrics |
[fsrmquota](docs/collector.fsrmquota.md) | Microsoft File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Quotas collector |
[hyperv](docs/collector.hyperv.md) | Hyper-V hosts |
[iis](docs/collector.iis.md) | IIS sites and applications |
[logical_disk](docs/collector.logical_disk.md) | Logical disks, disk I/O | ✓
[logon](docs/collector.logon.md) | User logon sessions |
[memory](docs/collector.memory.md) | Memory usage metrics |
[mscluster_cluster](docs/collector.mscluster_cluster.md) | MSCluster cluster metrics |
[mscluster_network](docs/collector.mscluster_network.md) | MSCluster network metrics |
[mscluster_node](docs/collector.mscluster_node.md) | MSCluster Node metrics |
[mscluster_resource](docs/collector.mscluster_resource.md) | MSCluster Resource metrics |
[mscluster_resourcegroup](docs/collector.mscluster_resourcegroup.md) | MSCluster ResourceGroup metrics |
[msmq](docs/collector.msmq.md) | MSMQ queues |
[mssql](docs/collector.mssql.md) | [SQL Server Performance Objects](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/performance-monitor/use-sql-server-objects#SQLServerPOs) metrics  |
[netframework_clrexceptions](docs/collector.netframework_clrexceptions.md) | .NET Framework CLR Exceptions |
[netframework_clrinterop](docs/collector.netframework_clrinterop.md) | .NET Framework Interop Metrics |
[netframework_clrjit](docs/collector.netframework_clrjit.md) | .NET Framework JIT metrics |
[netframework_clrloading](docs/collector.netframework_clrloading.md) | .NET Framework CLR Loading metrics |
[netframework_clrlocksandthreads](docs/collector.netframework_clrlocksandthreads.md) | .NET Framework locks and metrics threads |
[netframework_clrmemory](docs/collector.netframework_clrmemory.md) |  .NET Framework Memory metrics |
[netframework_clrremoting](docs/collector.netframework_clrremoting.md) | .NET Framework Remoting metrics |
[netframework_clrsecurity](docs/collector.netframework_clrsecurity.md) | .NET Framework Security Check metrics |
[net](docs/collector.net.md) | Network interface I/O | ✓
[os](docs/collector.os.md) | OS metrics (memory, processes, users) | ✓
[process](docs/collector.process.md) | Per-process metrics |
[remote_fx](docs/collector.remote_fx.md) | RemoteFX protocol (RDP) metrics |
[scheduled_task](docs/collector.scheduled_task.md) | Scheduled Tasks metrics |
[service](docs/collector.service.md) | Service state metrics | ✓
[smb](docs/collector.smb.md) | SMB Server |
[smtp](docs/collector.smtp.md) | IIS SMTP Server |
[system](docs/collector.system.md) | System calls | ✓
[tcp](docs/collector.tcp.md) | TCP connections |
[teradici_pcoip](docs/collector.teradici_pcoip.md) | [Teradici PCoIP](https://www.teradici.com/web-help/pcoip_wmi_specs/) session metrics |
[time](docs/collector.time.md) | Windows Time Service |
[thermalzone](docs/collector.thermalzone.md) | Thermal information
[terminal_services](docs/collector.terminal_services.md) | Terminal services (RDS)
[textfile](docs/collector.textfile.md) | Read prometheus metrics from a text file | ✓
[vmware_blast](docs/collector.vmware_blast.md) | VMware Blast session metrics |
[vmware](docs/collector.vmware.md) | 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.

### Filtering enabled collectors

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](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#<scrape_config>).

```
  params:
    collect[]:
      - foo
      - bar
```

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

## Flags

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.

Flag     | Description | Default value
---------|-------------|--------------------
`--web.listen-address` | host:port for exporter. | `:9182`
`--telemetry.path` | URL path for surfacing collected metrics. | `/metrics`
`--telemetry.max-requests` | Maximum number of concurrent requests. 0 to disable. | `5`
`--collectors.enabled` | Comma-separated list of collectors to use. Use `[defaults]` as a placeholder which gets expanded containing all the collectors enabled by default." | `[defaults]`
`--collectors.print` | If true, print available collectors and exit. |
`--scrape.timeout-margin` | Seconds to subtract from the timeout allowed by the client. Tune to allow for overhead or high loads. | `0.5`
`--web.config.file` | A [web config][web_config] for setting up TLS and Auth | None
`--config.file` | [Using a config file](#using-a-configuration-file) from path or URL | None
`--config.file.insecure-skip-verify` | Skip TLS when loading config file from URL | false

## Installation
The latest release can be downloaded from the [releases page](https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter/releases).

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:

Name | Description
-----|------------
`ENABLED_COLLECTORS` | As the `--collectors.enabled` flag, provide a comma-separated list of enabled collectors
`LISTEN_ADDR` | The IP address to bind to. Defaults to 0.0.0.0
`LISTEN_PORT` | The port to bind to. Defaults to 9182.
`METRICS_PATH` | The path at which to serve metrics. Defaults to `/metrics`
`TEXTFILE_DIR` | As the `--collector.textfile.directory` flag, provide a directory to read text files with metrics from
`REMOTE_ADDR` | Allows setting comma separated remote IP addresses for the Windows Firewall exception (allow list). Defaults to an empty string (any remote address).
`EXTRA_FLAGS` | Allows passing full CLI flags. Defaults to an empty string.

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

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

Example service collector with a custom query.
```powershell
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:
```powershell
msiexec /i C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\windows_exporter.msi ENABLED_COLLECTORS="ad,iis,logon,memory,process,tcp,textfile,thermalzone" TEXTFILE_DIR="C:\custom_metrics\"
```

Powershell versions 7.3 and above require [PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/experimental-features?view=powershell-7.3) to be set to `Legacy` when using `--% EXTRA_FLAGS`:

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


## Kubernetes Implementation

See detailed steps to install on Windows Kubernetes [here](./kubernetes/kubernetes.md).

## Supported versions

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

## Usage

    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](http://localhost:9182)

## Examples

### Enable only service collector and specify a custom query

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

### Enable only process collector and specify a custom query

    .\windows_exporter.exe --collectors.enabled "process" --collector.process.include="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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) must use `.+`. See [process](docs/collector.process.md) for more information.

### Using [defaults] with `--collectors.enabled` argument

Using `[defaults]`  with `--collectors.enabled` argument which gets expanded with all default collectors.

    .\windows_exporter.exe --collectors.enabled "[defaults],process,container"

This enables the additional process and container collectors on top of the defaults.

### Using a configuration file

YAML configuration files can be specified with the `--config.file` flag. e.g. `.\windows_exporter.exe --config.file=config.yml`. If you are using the absolute path, make sure to quote the path, e.g. `.\windows_exporter.exe --config.file="C:\Program Files\windows_exporter\config.yml"`

It is also possible to load the configuration from a URL. e.g. `.\windows_exporter.exe --config.file="https://example.com/config.yml"`

If you need to skip TLS verification, you can use the `--config.file.insecure-skip-verify` flag. e.g. `.\windows_exporter.exe --config.file="https://example.com/config.yml" --config.file.insecure-skip-verify`

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

An example configuration file can be found [here](docs/example_config.yml).

#### Configuration file notes

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

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

```yaml
log:
  level: debug
```

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

## License

Under [MIT](LICENSE)

[web_config]: https://github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit/blob/master/docs/web-configuration.md