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Windows performance counters with NSClient++ and Graphite Windows performance counters have been there for ages. While modern interfaces such as WMI attempt to replace performance counters they still provide access to unique metrics. Fetching performance counters through NSClient++ is helped with the check_pdh query. We’ve had an interesting issue with performance counters being received from a Windows client and then written to  Graphite. The involved components in this setup are Icinga 2 as master GraphiteWriter feature enabled and Graphite running An Icinga 2 client on the windows machine checked via cluster config sync „nscp-local“ CheckCommand objects for querying nscp.exe directly (config sync, global zone) NSClient++ installed on the Windows client   The Problem Graphite Web refuses to display any value for that metric as seen in the screenshot. A similar problem is discussed at the monitoring portal (German). While further analysing the problem we’ve come around this blog post. It did not help resolve the problem but provided insights on the problem within Graphite itself. The culprit lies in the performance data label containing the „%“ character. You will encounter similar issue with the „*“ character. The filesystem does not allow to store and load these files. There’s an issue on the Graphite bug tracker which targets dealing with special […]

Blogged: #Windows performance counters with NSClient++ and #Graphite -#icinga #nsclient #monitoring /ht @mickem

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