Correct way to set up simple Windows metrics monitoring?

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I did my best to follow some guides and other links e.g.

But, I am left with what seems to be a partly-broken setup. Not sure if I am supposed to be switching to the WSL2 flavor of this setup or if it’s enough to stick with the old Prometheus exporter.

I have netdata nightly running (successfully) on Debian 12.

I configured windows.conf

jobs:
  - name: win10
    vnode: win10
    url: http://192.168.1.103:9182/metrics

and vnodes.conf

- hostname: win10
  guid: a6dc90a3-bf48-4bdb-acfa-836f189609be

I installed windows_exporter on a Windows 10 VM as a test. Directly accessible via the network, no firewall and I can pull the http://192.168.1.103:9182/metrics successfully, so I know it is populating data. I installed it using this commandline:

msiexec /i windows_exporter-0.26.0-amd64.msi ENABLED_COLLECTORS=cpu,memory,net,logical_disk,os,system,logon,tcp,thermalzone,process,service

But, there is nothing showing up under Collectors:

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And, the dashboard misses a lot of basic info, such as RAM, CPU, etc.

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Just seems like something is off… Am I holding this thing upside down?

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Hi. The correct way is to wait for the native Netdata Agent on Windows.

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Ok but for now is there any way to just get most basic info? I am trying to troubleshoot ram ballooning on a certain cursed Windows system, and I would love to just get an alarm for RAM>90% consumed. Maybe I am hitting the ant with sledge hammer…

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Widget in dashboard will be fixed with native netdata agent. Have you run the debug steps in the docs? the windows box has the prometheus exporter that needs to be pulled.
debug info here Windows | Learn Netdata

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Yes - as I mentioned above I have installed windows_exporter and am able to access the stats page at http://windows.host:9182

Also yes I have run the debug commands from the netdata server, it is able to pull/poll successfully.

I think it’s not parsing the responses correctly maybe because I’m using a beta/rc of windows_exporter OR haven’t got the right metrics being published? In any case I will give up for now and wait a bit more for the next ND release as Ilya suggested…