Windows_exporter: [featurerequest] file exporter

[suptimal]

can u pls implement a fileexporter so i dont have to fire u node_exporter and wmi_exporter on windows?

thx.

[carlpett]

I guess we'll need to discuss this, but I'm not too keen on duplicating every feature in node_exporter just for its own sake, especially functionality that actually works on Windows in the existing package.
@martinlindhe Opinion?

[brian-brazil]

If this is just a node-exporter equivalent we should have it. If it's more like the JMX exporter and does more general WMI stuff it's more questionable.

[martinlindhe]

Thanks for the input @brian-brazil
i need to have a look as I'm not familiar with what this file exporter is doing

/m

[yosefy]

+1
it would solve all the missing stuff :)
for example i need to get something form event log.
this feature doesn't exist in wmi_exporter and may not happen soon
so we will just run some powershell and put a metric there

thanks

[steinbrueckri]

+1

[lubyou]

+1

[martinlindhe]

Hi all :-) Please use the "add your reaction" emoticons to existing comment to add a "me too".

The +1 comments only add spam to the subscribers

Thanks for letting us know this is wanted, it helps us prioritize future work.

[madeinoz67]

I have a requirement for file export functionality where I have an ancient process (pick DB running on windows server) that has scheduled jobs to dump license and user stats reports into a text file that I'd like to get into prometheus. Seeing that the file exporter is part of node exporter my thoughts are the file-exporter functionality should be mirrored in the WMI-exporter

[martinlindhe]

@madeinoz67

Feel free to submit a pull request

[carlpett]

This has now been implemented in #174, and released with wmi_exporter 0.3!