Thanks for the replies guys! We have chosen to switch to windows exporter in one shot and adjust grafana queries and alerts accordingly.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 2:27 AM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CABbyFmo2E7tsz0i8pgBLAmz7yxE39Fo5Zp4sa03qKCKgkdEQaA%40mail.gmail.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/CAKimyZsR-3tAtLa1%2BJ67Fp23Jse7vzYYSHhDBYNV-GXLzc_iCg%40mail.gmail.com.
