Application Real-Time Monitoring Service:Use Managed Service for Prometheus to monitor a Windows ECS instance

(Optional) Step 1: Install Windows Exporter

1. Download Windows Exporter: Log on to the Windows system of the ECS instance as an administrator, and download the installation package of Windows Exporter to the system.

2. Install Windows Exporter: Double-click the installation package windows_exporter-1.22.0-amd64.msi, or run the msiexec /i windows_exporter-1.22.0-amd64.msi command to complete the installation.

   • By default, Windows Exporter is installed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\windows_exporter directory.

   • The default port is 9182.

   • By default, the following metrics are collected: cpu, cpu_info, memory, process, tcp, cs, logical_disk, net, os, system, textfile, and time.

   • After Windows Exporter is installed, you can see the created services in Windows Console, including Windows Exporter.

3. Check whether Windows Exporter is working as expected: Run the curl localhost:{listening port}/metrics command or access localhost:{listening port}/metrics through a browser. Check whether normal Prometheus metric data is returned. If normal metric data is returned, Windows Exporter is working as expected.

4. Modify the config.yml file: Modify the port, or add or delete metrics. For more information, see Windows Exporter documentation. After you modify the config.yml file, run the sc stop windows_exporter && sc start windows_exporter command or use Windows Console to restart Windows Exporter.

Step 2: Enable the Windows component

1. Search for the Windows component: Log on to the Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS) console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Integration Center. Search for the Windows component.

   

2. Enable the component: On the Start Integration tab of the Windows panel, configure the parameters and click OK.

   

   Parameter	Description
   Select the environment type	The environment in which the Windows operating system is running. Valid value: ECS(VPC)
   WindowsExporter Installation Mode	Specify how to install Windows Exporter. Valid values: Automatic Installation Self Installation
   Host Service Discovery Mode	Specify the conditions of service discovery. Valid values: Unconditional (Select all Windows instances in the current VPC) Stain Label Selection Tag Label Selection IP CIDR Instance ID
   Collect TextFile	You can enter the absolute path of the directory where textfile is located. The path does not support environment variables. Example: /home/app/textfiles.
   Windows-Exporter Service port	The port of Windows Exporter. The default port is automatically filled in.
   Security Groups Are Automatically Configured	Specify whether to check the security group of the ECS instance to ensure the successful integration of the instance, and automatically add security group rules if the check fails.
   Custom ECS Tag Injection	Specify tag keys of the instance. Then, the whole key value pairs are added to the metrics.
   Metric Scrape interval (unit/second)	The interval at which metric data is collected. Default value: 15.

Step 4: Configure alerting

For information about how to create Prometheus alert rules, see Create an alert rule for a Prometheus instance.