Technical Preview
windows_exporter is undergoing a modernization. We plan to deliver a stable release by mid-2025, with upcoming changes—including a newly designed Hyper-V collector—adding value to the official 1.0 stable release.
Windows Management Infrastructure (MI) as a Replacement for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
As of version 0.30.0, windows_exporter no longer uses WMI directly. Instead, it utilizes its successor, Windows Management Infrastructure (MI), available since Windows Server 2012. MI offers several advantages, such as the ability to run queries in parallel.
Performance Data Helpers
When the environment variable WINDOWS_EXPORTER_PERF_COUNTERS_ENGINE=pdh is set, windows_exporter uses Performance Data Helpers instead of the Registry. This change also introduces support for Process V2, which is enabled by default on Windows Server 2022.
What's Changed
💥 Breaking Changes
- *: replace
--collectors.[name].*with--collector.[name].*flags (click PR number for more information) by @jkroepke in #1659 - *: Remove
teradici_pcoipandvmware_blastcollector by @jkroepke in #1686 - logon: BREAKING: replace wmi query by Win32 API calls and expose detailed logon sessions. (click PR for more information) by @jkroepke in #1687
✨ Exciting New Features
- updates: add windows update collector by @jkroepke in #1652
- tcp: use GetExtendedTcpTable to display states Closed, Listening, SynSent, SynRcvd, CloseWait, TimeWait ... by @astigmata in #1638
- net: expose network interfaces address by @jkroepke in #1635
- chore: Move private packages to internal by @jkroepke in #1664
- process: Implement PDH collector and add support for Process V2 by @jkroepke in #1666
- exchange: Use new collector interface by @jkroepke in #1685
- mi: replace all WMI calls with MI calls by @jkroepke in #1714
🐞 Bug Fixes
- scheduled_task: fix memory leaks by @jkroepke in #1649
- collector: add stack trace, if collector panics by @jkroepke in #1650
- initiate: fix Cannot create another system semaphore error by @jkroepke in #1653
- initiate: close event log handle by @jkroepke in #1654
- cpu: add workaround for counter resets related to
% Processor Utilitymetric by @jkroepke in #1637 - *: don't exclude resources, if empty exclude is empty. by @jkroepke in #1680
- update: rename
updatescollector toupdateby @jkroepke in #1692 - fix: fail, if unknown collector is defined in enabled list by @jkroepke in #1693
- tcp: fix panic on collector by @jkroepke in #1699
🛠️ Dependencies
- chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.25.0 to 0.26.0 by @dependabot in #1675
- chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.59.2-0.20240918152650-14bac55a992f to 0.60.0 by @dependabot in #1674
- chore(deps): bump github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v4 from 4.6.1 to 4.7.1 by @dependabot in #1689
- chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.20.4 to 1.20.5 by @dependabot in #1701
- chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.60.0 to 0.60.1 by @dependabot in #1708
- chore(deps): bump github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim from 0.12.7 to 0.12.8 by @dependabot in #1707
- chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit from 0.13.0 to 0.13.1 by @dependabot in #1717
- chore(deps): bump github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim from 0.12.8 to 0.12.9 by @dependabot in #1716
📖 Documentation
- docs: fix link to update collector by @ehrenfeu in #1682
- docs: add actual Windows Update service name by @ehrenfeu in #1690
- docs: Add log.file argument to README by @PolygonError in #1702
- docs: Update textfile collector defaults inclusion by @yangskyboxlabs in #1722
New Contributors
- @astigmata made their first contribution in #1638
- @ehrenfeu made their first contribution in #1682
- @PolygonError made their first contribution in #1702
- @yangskyboxlabs made their first contribution in #1722
Full Changelog: v0.29.2...v0.30.0-beta.0