The wmi_exporter was renamed to windows_exporter when we moved it to the Prometheus Community org. It originally started out as only handling WMI. But the functionality was expanded to use windows-native system calls to replace a number of WMI calls for performance and reliability. (WMI is slow and unreliable)
IMO, relabeling, or duplicating data, is not the correct way to handle a transition like this. This can be solved in PromQL in Grafana or alerting rules. A simple "or" operator can pick the correct metric. windows_FOO or wmi_FOO On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 8:38 AM Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: > You could scrape twice and relabel one of them - but then you'd be better > off just scraping the old and new exporters once each. > > I think is is probably the best option anyway. Unless you are 100% sure > that every wmi_xxx metric has exactly the same semantics and labels as the > corresponding windows_xxx metrics, you could cause yourself accidental pain. > > Do you mind if I ask, why did you decide to move from wmi_exporter to > windows_exporter? I rarely have to deal with Windows machines, but when I > do, I'd like to know what influences the choice of exporter. The fact > you're considering relabelling suggests that the metrics they produce are > very similar. > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/be6e41c6-c853-454c-ac85-c0d31f2ab2a4o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/be6e41c6-c853-454c-ac85-c0d31f2ab2a4o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmo2E7tsz0i8pgBLAmz7yxE39Fo5Zp4sa03qKCKgkdEQaA%40mail.gmail.com.
