Windows_exporter: Question: can this project manage multiple remote computers? If you can hope to give some advice.

[liyang010813]

Question: can this project manage multiple remote computers? If you can hope to give some advice.thank you!

[carlpett]

Hi @liyang010813,
No, it is intended to be installed locally on each monitored machine, which is in line with Prometheus best practices.

[liyang010813]

@carlpett That means you can only monitor your local computer, right? If, then, Prometheus exists on all remote computers, it is not possible to manage it comprehensively.

[liyang010813]

@carlpett then this project exist what's the meaning

[carlpett]

I think you may have mixed up the relation between Prometheus and exporters. You'll have one (or more) central Prometheus servers, which scrape your exporters, that are deployed on all your targets (Windows servers, in the case of the wmi_exporter).
So you do not have to manage a prometheus installation on each machine.

The thing this project does is simply to expose metrics from the Windows OS, so that Prometheus can scrape them.