Windows Storage Spaces (WMI)

Description

This connector enables the monitoring of physical disks through the Windows Storage Management's WMI provider. It supports all disk types, including disks on NVMe bus and NVDIMM. When available, temperature sensors are also discovered and monitored.

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Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• WBEMGenDiskNT
• DiskPart

Target

Typical platform: Microsoft Windows

Operating system: Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

Leverages: Windows Storage Spaces

Technology and protocols: WMI

Examples

CLI

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

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: win
        connectors: [ +WinStorageSpaces ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Windows Storage Spaces (WMI) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The device type must be one of: NT
• The WMI query below succeeds:
  • Namespace: root\Microsoft\Windows\Storage
  • Query: SELECT ObjectId FROM MSFT_Volume

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
disk_controller	hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="present"}	hw.parent.type id model name
logical_disk	hw.logical_disk.limit hw.logical_disk.usage{state="free"} hw.logical_disk.usage{state="used"} hw.status{hw.type="logical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"}	hw.parent.type id info name type
physical_disk	hw.errors{hw.type="physical_disk"} hw.physical_disk.endurance_utilization{state="remaining"} hw.physical_disk.size hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="predicted_failure"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	firmware_version hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name serial_number vendor
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"} hw.temperature hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.critical"} hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.degraded"}	hw.parent.type id name sensor_location