Windows OS metrics collection with Telegraf
Ok, getting metrics(CPU, Memory & Network) from Windows OS is completely different from Linux. In Linux, people can easily develop scripts to get system metrics by simply reading /proc pseudo files. In fact, there are so many open source tools to do this in Linux, like tcollector which is my favourite. Now, Let’s look at this Telegraf tool and what it does. I found Telegraf tool is a really simple, elegant way to collect Windows OS metrics and lightweight too, unlike others which some are paid and crappy. This tool doesn’t provide any wizard installation to set up, but one has to run a command in Windows Powershell to install it as Windows service. It supports multiple TSDB backend storage like Graphite, OpenTSDB, etc but I have tested only with OpenTSDB. ...