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This tutorial demonstrates how to monitor Windows Server – including IIS and MSSQL – for logs, metrics, and traces using OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus Windows Exporter.
tar.gz
files unpackedSTEP 1. Download the latest MSI from GitHub (0.22.0.msi as of 30 April ’23).
STEP 2. Open the command line and navigate to C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads
or the MSI folder.
STEP 3. Select which exporter collectors you require – including MSSQL and IIS – from this verbose list: cpu,cs,logical_disk,net,os,service,system,textfile,iis,mssql
.
STEP 4. Open Command Prompt.
STEP 5. Run the following command to install the MSI with the collectors chosen:
msiexec /i windows_exporter-0.22.0-amd64.msi ENABLED_COLLECTORS="os,iis”
STEP 1. Download the latest tar.gz from GitHub (0.76.1.tar.gz as of 30 April ’23).
STEP 2. Unpack the content into a C:\\cx-otel
. This may require you to install a program to unpack tar.gz files.
STEP 3. Create a config.yaml
based on the following configuration.
receivers: filelog: include: [ C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\*.* ] prometheus: config: scrape_configs: - job_name: 'windows_exporter' scrape_interval: 15s static_configs: - targets: ['0.0.0.0:9182'] processors: resourcedetection: detectors: [system] system: hostname_sources: ["os"] batch: exporters: coralogix: metrics: endpoint: "ingress.coralogix.com:443" logs: endpoint: "ingress.coralogix.com:443" private_key: "coralogix-api-key" application_name: "WinServer" subsystem_name: "Host" service: pipelines: metrics: receivers: [prometheus] processors: [resourcedetection, batch] exporters: [coralogix] logs: receivers: [filelog] processors: [resourcedetection, batch] exporters: [coralogix]
Notes:
endpoint
: Select the OpenTelemetry endpoint associated with your Coralogix domainprivate_key
: Your Coralogix Send-Your-Data API keyapplication_name
& subsystem_name
: Application and subsystem names as they will appear in your Coralogix UISTEP 4. Install the collector as a service by running the following command:
sc.exe create cx-otelcol displayname=cx-otelcol start=delayed-auto binPath="C:\cx-otel\otelcol-contrib.exe --config C:\cx-otel\config.yaml”
STEP 5. Run the service.
sc.exe start cx-otelcol
Configure Windows exporter dashboards and the OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Extension to monitor the collector itself.
STEP 1. Open Services and check that both windows_exporter
and cx-otelcol
service are running.
STEP 2. To validate which metrics exist in windows_exporter
, navigate to http://localhost:9182/metrics.
Notes:
windows_exporter.exe
is unsafe and may require a specific “unblock” in its settings.windows_exporter
and otelcol
can be run without services to check for logs in the command prompt.STEP 3. Navigate to Grafana Explore to confirm that windows_*
metrics are arriving in your Coralogix dashboard.
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