Monitoring a Windows host

Combined, the CPU usage values give a detailed view of how the host utilizes CPU resources.

The CPU usage metric displays the following metrics in percentage on a graph for a selected time period for each CPU:

Datapoint: Filesystem

The following table outlines the individual GPU usage values:

Instana collects the metric from nvidia-smi. The following table outlines the supported version of Nvidia graphics cards:

The following list of processes uses GPU:

The following table outlines the supported version of Nvidia graphics cards for GPU memory:

The following table outlines the unit for memory:

Instana displays the values on a graph for a selected time period.

Datapoint: Filesystem

These metrics provide insights into file system performance, capacity, and usage, allowing administrators to monitor and optimize their storage systems effectively.

Datapoint: Filesystem

* The total, read, and write usage datapoint metrics display the disk I/O utilization as a percentage.

* Leaked (refers to deleted files that are in use and equates to capacity - used - free. You can find these files with lsof | grep deleted).

By default, Instana only monitors local file systems. You can list the file systems that are monitored or excluded in the configuration.yaml file.

The name for the configuration setting is the device name, which you can obtain from the output of Get-PSDrive -PSProvider FileSystem.

The following example shows the list of file systems that are monitored:

com.instana.plugin.host:
  filesystems:
    - 'C'
    - 'D'
 

The following example shows the file systems that are included or excluded:

com.instana.plugin.host:
  filesystems:
    include:
      - 'C'
      - 'D'
    exclude:
      - 'E'
 

To monitor the SMB shares, use the smb configuration parameter as shown in the following example:

com.instana.plugin.host:
  smb:
    - "\\\\server\\smbshare"
    - "Y:"

The following table outlines the network traffic and errors per an interface.

Datapoint: Filesystem

These metrics provide insights into TCP connection activity, including established connections, segment transmission rates, and error occurrences.

Datapoint: Filesystem

Instana does not monitor Windows services by default. This feature is enabled only when winServiceRegex is entered in the host agent configuration.yaml file. The winServiceRegex is a regular expression that is used to monitor services whose service name or display name matches the regular expression. For example, winServiceRegex: '(Sensor|Device)' monitors all services that include Sensor or Device in their service name or display name.

These metrics offer insights into running processes, including their process ID, name, CPU usage, normalized CPU usage, and memory consumption. The top process list is updated every 30 seconds and the list contains only the processes with system usage. For example, the processes with more than 10% CPU usage over the last 30 seconds or processes with more than 512 MB memory usage (RSS) are displayed in the process top list.

Linux top semantics are used. 100% CPU refers to full use of a single CPU core, and you can search a history of snapshots from the previous month. The normalized CPU is calculated by dividing the CPU by the number of logical processors.

Datapoint: Filesystem

Windows failover cluster monitoring provides comprehensive insights into the health, performance, and configuration of Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) environments.

Instana does not enable Windows failover cluster monitoring by default. You must enable it explicitly in the agent configuration file:

com.instana.plugin.host:
  wsfcEnabled: true

After you enable the feature, the agent collects cluster metrics every 60 seconds.