grafana agent flow vs windows_exporter process collector

[DavidSkDerivco]

What's wrong?

w3wp processes do not have iis process names when collecting when running Grafana Agent Flow v0.39.1 Example when running windows_exporter v0.24.0 - windows_process_cpu_time_total{creating_process_id="1234",mode="user",process="_w3wpDefaultAppPool",process_id="123456"} Example running Grafana Agent Flow v0.39.1 - windows_process_cpu_time_total{creating_process_id="1234",mode="user",process="w3wp",process_id="12345"} 111.8125

Steps to reproduce

Install Grafana Agent Flow v0.39.1 and compare with install of windows_exporter v0.24.0 Check "windows_process" metrics

System information

Windows Server 2019

Software version

Grafana Agent Flow v0.39.1

Configuration

prometheus.exporter.windows "os_metrics" {
  enabled_collectors = ["process","iis"]
  process {
    include = "Idle|w3w.*|grafana.+"
  }
}

Logs

No logs on this event

[jaco-van-zyl-derivco]

It does not look like the flag is available in the grafana agent config

--collector.process.iis
Enables IIS process name queries. IIS process names are combined with their app pool name to form the process label.
Disabled by default, and can be enabled with --collector.process.iis=true.

[tpaschalis]

Looks like @jaco-van-zyl-derivco is right, we haven't wired this new config field and only have include/exclude. Would any of you be interested in wiring this in?

[jaco-van-zyl-derivco]

I am happy to attempt this addition

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[jaco-van-zyl-derivco]

Awaiting a new build of the windows_exporter

[rfratto]

Hi there :wave:

On April 9, 2024, Grafana Labs announced Grafana Alloy, the spirital successor to Grafana Agent and the final form of Grafana Agent flow mode. As a result, Grafana Agent has been deprecated and will only be receiving bug and security fixes until its end-of-life around November 1, 2025.

To make things easier for maintainers, we're in the process of migrating all issues tagged variant/flow to the Grafana Alloy repository to have a single home for tracking issues. This issue is likely something we'll want to address in both Grafana Alloy and Grafana Agent, so just because it's being moved doesn't mean we won't address the issue in Grafana Agent :)