Windows - Processes (WMI)

Description

Monitors essential performance metrics of any Windows system through WMI, following OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.

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Target

Typical platform: Microsoft Windows

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Leverages: WMI

Technology and protocols: WMI

Variables:

• matchName: Regular expression pattern to match process names for monitoring. (default: .*)
• matchCommand: Regular expression pattern to match process command lines for monitoring. (default: .*)
• matchDomain: Regular expression pattern to match domain names for monitoring. (default: .*)
• matchUser: Regular expression pattern to match user names for monitoring. (default: .*)

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t win -c +WindowsProcess --wmi -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +WindowsProcess ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
        additionalConnectors:
          WindowsProcess: # Unique ID. Use 'uses' if different from the original connector ID
            uses: WindowsProcess # Optional - Original ID if not in key
            force: true # Optional (default: true); false for auto-detection only
            variables:
              matchName: <VALUE> # Replace with desired value.
              matchCommand: <VALUE> # Replace with desired value.
              matchDomain: <VALUE> # Replace with desired value.
              matchUser: <VALUE> # Replace with desired value.

Connector Activation Criteria

The Windows - Processes (WMI) connector must be selected manually, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The WMI query below succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\CIMv2
  • Query: SELECT Name FROM Win32_OperatingSystem

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
process	process.cpu.time process.cpu.utilization process.disk.io{disk.io.direction="read"} process.disk.io{disk.io.direction="write"} process.disk.operations{disk.io.direction="read"} process.disk.operations{disk.io.direction="write"} process.handle.count process.memory.usage process.memory.virtual process.paging.faults process.thread.count	id process.id process.match.command process.match.domain process.match.name process.match.user process.name process.parent.id