Windows Servers Overview

This dashboard provides a summary of all the Windows servers in a Prometheus data source, with metrics collected via windows_exporter

This dashboard provides a summary of all the Windows servers in a Prometheus data source. It uses windows_exporter to collect metrics.

It sorts by Status followed by Hostname, so servers that are down are at the top. This can be overridden by sorting by any column.
Revision shows the latest OS update, which is useful as a quick check that the operating system is fully patched
Thresholds are set to draw attention to potential problems (servers that have rebooted recently, servers that are low on RAM, or servers that have nearly full volumes)
It shows the volume with the least disk space available (by percentage of total space) and how much space is being used
It uses rate instead of irate
- It doesn’t seem like this should be necessary to mention, but every other community dashboard I looked at uses irate
- References:
  - https://grafana.com/blog/2020/09/28/new-in-grafana-7.2-__rate_interval-for-prometheus-rate-queries-that-just-work/
  - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusRateVsIrate
The Hostname can be configured as a link to a dashboard showing more detailed metrics for that server (see notes below)

More detailed info: GitHub repo

Linking Server Specific Metrics using the Hostname field

Add a field override using the “Fields with name” option, and specify the Hostname field
Add an override property using the “Data Links” option
Add a link
- Title: $hostname
- URL: <dashboard specific URL>&var-hostname=${__data.fields.hostname}
  - Example: /grafana/d/edgz29vfxxdkwe/windows-server?orgId=1&var-hostname=${__data.fields.hostname}

Note: You could specify the dashboard UID in your JSON file to avoid having to manually configure this. However, if a dashboard already exists with that UID, it will be overwritten.

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Windows Servers Overview

Linking Server Specific Metrics using the Hostname field

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