[featurerequest] Per-process information about windows_exporter HOT 6 CLOSED

Ah, no, that is something we did not think about. Sorry about that. If you know your way around sc.exe, that is probably the easiest way short-term, or going into regedit and changing the parameters there.
We'll have to add some "other options" parameter to the msi, I guess.

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Sorry, missed this one! This is probably not going to happen dynamically, however, since it will likely result in a very high number of metrics. As an example, on my laptop I currently have several hundred processes, many with names dependent on startup-order, etc. Process ids have a similar problem in that they are not possible to correlate over process restarts, etc.
One possibility would be to allow adding a list of processes that you are interested in and get just those, but I'm not sure if that wouldn't live better in a separate exporter?

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@carlpett @seanhoughton Since checking this exporter out I have started to use scollector exporter.
https://github.com/tgulacsi/prometheus_scollector

Its pretty simple to set up, you need to stick this on the windoze machine: http://bosun.org/scollector/ and the exporter itself can run anywhere, just point scollector at the exporter.
It has a regex match for name of process you would like to monitor.
Create a file called scollector.toml with e.g.:

[[Process]]
Name = "^randomProcessName."

So for anything process related on Dos* I have started using scollector and everything else is using the wmi_exporter :)

@carlpett If you are going to create a seperate exporter that would be even better as it removes the dependency for scollector. Because I really like your wmi_exporter, very efficient and tiny footprint.

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This is fixed in #79!

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Is there a simple way to use the collector.process.processes-where flag or do I need to create the service myself? I don't seem able to add arguments to the wmi-exporter service.

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