Windows machine monitoring

Telegraf is able to monitor Windows machine

1. Obtain the telegraf windows distribution Downloads
2. Follow instructions Running Telegraf as a Windows Service
3. Configure Telegraf with Comonway configuration in telegraf.conf. See Configure section below.
4. Control that the Telegraf service restart at bootup (NB: Need to improve control from Windows service panel)

Note: You can configure Inputs inside telegraf.conf depending on the host configuration.

Basic configuration

Open the telegraf.conf file in a text editor which support TOML

The Windows version of Telegraf has a configuration file setup to collect some common Windows performance counters by default.

InfluxDB server in [[outputs.influxdb]]

[[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = ["http://Your-Linux-Server-IP:8086"]

Modify collection interval under [agent] section

[agent]
  interval = "10s"

If you want an example, see Windows Metrics Dashboards

Configure Telegraf

Configuration file locations

The default locations are /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf for the main configuration file and /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d for the directory of configuration files.

Output Configuration Examples

Filter measurements to different outputs in terms of name or tag

[[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
  database = "telegraf"
  precision = "s"
  # Drop all measurements that start with "aerospike"
  namedrop = ["aerospike*"]

[[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
  database = "telegraf-aerospike-data"
  precision = "s"
  # Only accept aerospike data:
  namepass = ["aerospike*"]

[[outputs.influxdb]]
  urls = [ "http://localhost:8086" ]
  database = "telegraf-cpu0-data"
  precision = "s"
  # Only store measurements where the tag "cpu" matches the value "cpu0"
  [outputs.influxdb.tagpass]
    cpu = ["cpu0"]