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Monitor Windows easily with Grafana

Easily monitor your Windows deployment with Grafana Cloud’s out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The Grafana Cloud forever-free tier includes 3 users and up to 10k metrics series to support your monitoring needs.

Windows integration for Grafana Cloud

The Grafana Windows integration is designed to help users monitor their Windows infrastructure by collecting various system metrics, such as CPU usage, memory, disk activity, and network performance. This integration is optimized for use with Grafana Cloud, providing an easy setup process, pre-configured dashboards, and alerting mechanisms that enhance the observability of Windows environments.

Use this integration to gain valuable insights into the performance and health of your Windows systems, so you can proactively troubleshoot and efficiently monitor your infrastructure. The detailed metrics and visualizations helps to quickly identify and resolve issues, ensuring optimal system performance.

The integration includes 5 pre-built dashboards to help monitor and visualize Windows metrics and logs.

Windows monitoring dashboards

  1. Windows CPU and system
  2. Windows disks and filesystems
  3. Windows fleet overview
  4. Windows logs
  5. Windows overview
Windows fleet overview
Windows fleet overview
Windows overview
Windows overview
Windows logs
Windows logs
Windows disks
Windows disks

Key metrics included

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windows_cpu_interrupts_total
windows_cpu_time_total
windows_cs_hostname
windows_cs_logical_processors
windows_cs_physical_memory_bytes
windows_disk_drive_status
windows_logical_disk_avg_read_requests_queued
windows_logical_disk_avg_write_requests_queued
windows_logical_disk_free_bytes
windows_logical_disk_idle_seconds_total
windows_logical_disk_read_bytes_total
windows_logical_disk_read_seconds_total
windows_logical_disk_reads_total
windows_logical_disk_size_bytes
windows_logical_disk_write_bytes_total
windows_logical_disk_write_seconds_total
windows_logical_disk_writes_total
windows_net_bytes_received_total
windows_net_bytes_sent_total
windows_net_packets_outbound_discarded_total
windows_net_packets_outbound_errors_total
windows_net_packets_received_discarded_total
windows_net_packets_received_errors_total
windows_net_packets_received_unknown_total
windows_os_info
windows_os_paging_limit_bytes
windows_os_physical_memory_free_bytes
windows_os_timezone
windows_service_status
windows_system_context_switches_total
windows_system_processor_queue_length
windows_system_system_up_time
windows_time_computed_time_offset_seconds
windows_time_ntp_round_trip_delay_seconds

Key alerting rules included

WindowsCPUHighUsage (Warning)
WindowsDiskAlmostOutOfSpace (Critical)
WindowsDiskDriveNotHealthy (Critical)
WindowsMemoryHighUtilization (Critical)
WindowsNTPClientDelay (Warning)
WindowsNTPTimeOffset (Warning)
WindowsServiceNotHealthy (Critical)