# prometheus-community/windows_exporter

Prometheus exporter for Windows machines

Repository: https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/windows_exporter
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wmi, prometheus-exporter, prometheus, windows
Last push: 2026-08-23T22:50:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 94, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3660, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 42, "gap_med": 14, "n_releases_24m": 24}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3614, forks 780 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:11.716893+00:00)

## What it is
A Prometheus exporter that collects metrics from Windows machines via WMI and exposes them in Prometheus format. It ships with collectors for CPU, memory, disk, network, and Windows services like Active Directory and IIS.

## Use cases
- monitor windows server cpu and memory with prometheus
- export windows performance counters to prometheus
- scrape wmi metrics from windows machines
- monitor active directory and iis with prometheus
- set up windows host monitoring for grafana dashboards

## When to choose
- you run Windows servers and want Prometheus-based monitoring
- you need standard OS metrics (CPU, disk, network, services) from Windows hosts
- you want an official prometheus-community exporter with broad collector coverage

## When to avoid
- your hosts are Linux (use node_exporter instead)
- you need application-level metrics rather than OS/Windows service metrics
- you don't use Prometheus or a compatible metrics scraper

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring
- domain: monitoring, windows
- platform: windows, go
- tags: prometheus-exporter, wmi, windows-metrics, observability, devops

## Member repositories
- prometheus-community/windows_exporter (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:11.716893+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:33:36.913684+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:11.716893+00:00, sha 88b529b133dc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.