How to Install Windows Exporter for prometheus?

Prerequisite

Step 1 – Download and Install Windows Exporter

• https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/
• https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter
• https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter/releases
• windows_exporter-0.16.0-amd64.msi – Installed with Services
• windows_exporter-0.16.0-amd64.exe – Run Adhoc on the screen

Step 2 – Start a windows Windows Exporter

• The port to bind to. Defaults to 9182.
• validate – http://ip-address:9182/metrics

Step 3 – Configure Promethus promethus.yml for scrap target

  - job_name: windows
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['3.109.158.193:9182']

Step 4 – Restart or Reload a Promethus

Step 5 – Validate a Target was added in Promethus or not

Step 6 – Validate a windows metrices

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