Windows integration

The Windows integration provides comprehensive host monitoring for Windows servers using native Windows mechanisms.


What it’s for	Monitoring health and performance of Windows servers
Who uses it	Windows administrators, DevOps teams managing mixed environments
Under the hood	Uses Windows performance counters for authoritative data

Metrics collected

CPU — Processor time, queue length
Memory — Available, committed, page faults
Disk — Read/write bytes, queue depth
Network — Bytes sent/received, errors
Services — State, start mode

Trade-offs

Best for: Windows servers, especially environments running IIS

Pros	Cons
Pre-built dashboards: host overview, services	Windows-only
Pre-built alerts: CPU, memory, disk, services	Agent installation required
Native Windows performance counters	Some metrics need elevated access
Service state monitoring built-in
Familiar Windows terminology in dashboards

Learning path

Deploy this integration step by step.

Windows server integration

The Windows integration does for Windows what the Linux integration does for Linux, providing comprehensive host monitoring using native Windows mechanisms. It collects metrics through Windows performance counters, which means you’re getting the same data Windows itself uses for monitoring.

CPU processor time and queue length, memory including available bytes and page faults, disk I/O with queue depths, network statistics, and (importantly for Windows) service states. You can see which services are running, stopped, or in a problem state.

The dashboards use Windows terminology, so they’ll feel familiar if you’re a Windows administrator. Processor queue length, committed memory. These concepts translate directly.

If you’re running IIS for web serving, the integration can pull those metrics too, including requests, connections, and application pool health.

For organizations running both Windows and Linux, the integrations give you a consistent Grafana experience while respecting each operating system’s conventions.

Setup is straightforward: the Alloy Windows installer handles the installation, you configure the integration in Grafana Cloud, and metrics start flowing.

Windows integration