v0.30.6

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• fix: Support running as Windows Service within containers by @jkroepke in #1907
• fix: buffer length panic by @jkroepke in #1936
• hyperv: fix Windows Server 2016 compatibility by @jkroepke in #1925
• fix: return Windows 11 as product name, if build number is >= 22000 by @jkroepke in #1935
• service: fix windows.EnumServicesStatusEx reports buffer too small by @jkroepke in #1954
• mssql: support initial non default instances names by @jkroepke in #1958
• logon: deprecate collector. Use terminal_services instead by @jkroepke in #1957
• memory: fix panics if metrics does not exists by @jkroepke in #1960
• fix: windows_cpu_processor_utility_total is always 0 by @jkroepke in #1966
• system: Metric windows_system_boot_time_timestamp returns a UNIX timestamp again. by @jkroepke in #1967

Full Changelog: v0.30.5...v0.30.6

v0.30.5

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• time: fix panic if counters aren't present by @jkroepke in #1898
• fix: log to the Windows temp directory if of service detection failures. by @jkroepke in #1890
• ci: fix checksum by @jkroepke in #1905
• terminal_services: fix panic in collect by @jkroepke in #1906
• netframework: fix metric names (re-add the collector sub-type to metrics) by @jkroepke in #1908

🛠️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.21.0-rc.0 to 1.21.0 by @dependabot in #1899
• chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/client_golang from 1.21.0 to 1.21.1 by @dependabot in #1919
• fix: update dependencies by @jkroepke in #1920

📖 Documentation

• docs: add disk activity query. by @jkroepke in #1889
• docs: fix physical_disk docs by @jkroepke in #1897
• docs: added examples for alternative installer dir by @jkroepke in #1909

Full Changelog: v0.30.4...v0.30.5

v0.30.4

Checksum mismatch on this release is expected.

See: #1900

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• ci: pin wix toolset version to avoid installing incompatible extensions by @jkroepke in #1885

Full Changelog: v0.30.3...v0.30.4

v0.30.3

Due to a CI failure, the release artifact couldn't be produced. A fix has been released as v0.30.4.

What's Changed

✨ Exciting New Features

• feat: sign binaries by @jkroepke in #1875
• feat: windows_exporter uses own event log source to correctly format messages. by @jkroepke in #1873

🐞 Bug Fixes

• fix: slow stop if run as service by @jkroepke in #1870
• cs: fix metric description by @jkroepke in #1881
• config: multiple web.listen-address args results into an error, if --config.file is defined. by @jkroepke in #1876
• mscluster: restore support for Windows Server 2016-2019 by @jkroepke in #1882

Full Changelog: v0.30.2...v0.30.3

v0.30.2

What's Changed

💥 Breaking Changes

• config: deprecate remote http configuration by @jkroepke in #1849

✨ Exciting New Features

• dhcp: add dhcp scope stats by @jkroepke in #1840

🐞 Bug Fixes

• fix: process priority setting by @jkroepke in #1852
• installer: force close application on uninstall by @jkroepke in #1854
• process: negative values with windows_process_start_time by @jkroepke in #1857
• installer: add validation for EXTRA_FLAGS by @jkroepke in #1867
• netframework: fix MI_RESULT_INVALID_QUERY by @jkroepke in #1862

🛠️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v4 from 4.7.1 to 4.8.0 by @dependabot in #1846
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 by @dependabot in #1848
• chore(deps): bump github.com/bmatcuk/doublestar/v4 from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1 by @dependabot in #1859
• chore(deps): bump actions/stale from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0 by @dependabot in #1860

📖 Documentation

• docs: fix typo in README.md by @hamedprog in #1844

New Contributors

• @hamedprog made their first contribution in #1844

Full Changelog: v0.30.1...v0.30.2

v0.30.1

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• netframework: add --collector.netframework.enabled CLI flag by @jkroepke in #1833
• net: fix sanitize # on the nic label for windows_net_nic_address_info by @jkroepke in #1839
• fix: Windows 11/Windows Server 2025 service compatibility by @jkroepke in #1841

📖 Documentation

• docs: add CONTRIBUTING.md docs by @jkroepke in #1834

Full Changelog: v0.30.0...v0.30.1

v0.30.0

Information

During the development of version 0.30, the windows_exporter underwent significant modernization. We plan to deliver a stable release by mid-2025, with upcoming changes—including a newly designed Hyper-V collector—enhancing the value of the official 1.0 stable release.

✨ Breaking Changes

windows_exporter introduced another wave of breaking changes due to limited maintainer capacity to maintain backward compatibility. Please note that windows_exporter uses Semantic Versioning (semver), and backward compatibility is not guaranteed for versions below 1.0.

Windows Management Infrastructure (MI) as a Replacement for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

As of version 0.30.0, windows_exporter no longer uses WMI directly. Instead, it leverages its successor, Windows Management Infrastructure (MI), available since Windows Server 2012. MI provides several advantages, such as the ability to run queries in parallel.

New Hyper-V collector

The Hyper-V collector got a full rewrite and now using Performance Data API instead WMI. This should result into a faster collect time. However, a lot metric names has been changed.

Performance Data Helpers

windows_exporter 0.30 uses Performance Data Helpers instead of parsing binary data directly from the registry. This update also introduces support for Process V2, which is enabled by default on Windows Server 2022. Due to known issues with the Process V1 collector, the registry-based collector remains in use.

Windows Server 2025

In version 0.30, windows_exporter adopts a new Docker base image: mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/windows-host-process-containers-base-image. This new Docker image eliminates the need to build dedicated images for each version of Windows OS.

performancecounter Collector

windows_exporter now supports a generic performancecounter collector. This new collector allows users to extend monitoring capabilities independently. Please note that the performancecounter collector is still in an experimental state.

What's Changed

💥 Breaking Changes

• replace --collectors.[name].* with --collector.[name].* flags (click PR number for more information) by @jkroepke in #1659
• remove teradici_pcoip and vmware_blast collector by @jkroepke in #1686
• logon: BREAKING: replace wmi query by Win32 API calls and expose detailed logon sessions. (click PR for more information) by @jkroepke in #1687
• chore: Switch to hostprocess base image and add support for Windows Server 2025 on Kubernetes (click PR number for more information) by @jkroepke in #1731
• pagefile: BREAKING: move paging metrics from os to dedicated collector (click PR for more information) by @jkroepke in #1735
• chore: Remove registry based perfdata collector by @jkroepke in #1742
• hyperv: Refactor collector, added DataStore, Virtual SMB and Dynamic Memory Balancer metrics (click PR number for more information) by @jkroepke in #1712
• system: BREAKING rename windows_system_system_up_time to windows_system_boot_time_timestamp_seconds by @jkroepke in #1784

✨ Exciting New Features

• updates: add windows update collector by @jkroepke in #1652
• tcp: use GetExtendedTcpTable to display states Closed, Listening, SynSent, SynRcvd, CloseWait, TimeWait ... by @astigmata in #1638
• net: expose network interfaces address by @jkroepke in #1635
• chore: Move private packages to internal by @jkroepke in #1664
• process: Implement PDH collector and add support for Process V2 by @jkroepke in #1666
• exchange: Use new collector interface by @jkroepke in #1685
• mi: replace all WMI calls with MI calls by @jkroepke in #1714
• feat: add perfcounter.engine CLI option as alternative to WINDOWS_EXPORTER_PERF_COUNTERS_ENGINE env by @jkroepke in #1723
• udp: Added UDP collector by @jkroepke in #1725
• vmware: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1727
• time: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1728
• terminal_services: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1729
• system: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1730
• physical_disk: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1734
• remote_fx: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1738
• smtp: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1739
• smb: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1740
• service: parallelize api calls by @jkroepke in #1744
• mssql: expose server version info by @jkroepke in #1741
• exchange: Extend Transport Queue metrics by @jkroepke in #1749
• nps: refactor collector by @jkroepke in #1764
• msmq: Use Performance Counter instead WMI by @jkroepke in #1766
• feat: Support OpenMetrics by @jkroepke in #1772
• performancecounter: rename collector by @jkroepke in #1787
• performancecounter: support yaml documents and tolerate collector errors by @jkroepke in #1809
• performancecounter: Add the possibility to request formatted values by @jkroepke in #1830

🐞 Bug Fixes

• scheduled_task: fix memory leaks by @jkroepke in #1649
• collector: add stack trace, if collector panics by @jkroepke in #1650
• initiate: fix Cannot create another system semaphore error by @jkroepke in #1653
• initiate: close event log handle by @jkroepke in #1654
• cpu: add workaround for counter resets related to % Processor Utility metric by @jkroepke in #1637
• *: don't exclude resources, if empty exclude is empty. by @jkroepke in #1680
• update: rename updates collector to update by @jkroepke in #1692
• fix: fail, if unknown collector is defined in enabled list by @jkroepke in #1693
• tcp: fix panic on collector by @jkroepke in #1699
• service: fixed buffer too low error by @jkroepke in #1745
• logicaldisk: fix base counter values by @jkroepke in #1747
• logical_disk: Get Volume ID for NTFS Volume Mounts by @jkroepke in #1752
• mssql: fix performance counter with additional server instance by @jkroepke in #1753
• logical_disk: revert panic trigger on error by @jkroepke in #1755
• collector: remove windows_exporter_perflib_snapshot_duration_seconds metric by @jkroepke in #1760
• adfs: fix collector by @jkroepke in #1761
• collector: fix wrong perfdata instances by @jkroepke in #1763
• smb: extend smb share metrics by @jkroepke in #1765
• mscluster: fix cluster and network sub collectors by @jkroepke in https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_e...

v0.30.0-rc.5

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• performancecounter: fix panic with counter names having brackets by @jkroepke in #1822

🛠️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.28.0 to 0.29.0 by @dependabot in #1825

Full Changelog: v0.30.0-rc.4...v0.30.0-rc.5

v0.30.0-rc.4

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• iis: fix panic by @jkroepke in #1820

Full Changelog: v0.30.0-rc.3...v0.30.0-rc.4

v0.30.0-rc.3

What's Changed

✨ Exciting New Features

• performancecounter: support yaml documents and tolerate collector errors by @jkroepke in #1809

🐞 Bug Fixes

• mssql: add counter based on server version by @jkroepke in #1799
• process: Use registry collector for V1 data by @jkroepke in #1814

🛠️ Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/common from 0.60.1 to 0.61.0 by @dependabot in #1810
• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.27.0 to 0.28.0 by @dependabot in #1811
• chore(deps): bump github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit from 0.13.1 to 0.13.2 by @dependabot in #1815

Full Changelog: v0.30.0-rc.2...v0.30.0-rc.3