Mastering Windows Monitoring in Kubernetes Environments
summary
A monitoring stack is built on a Windows Server 2022 node using containerd with HostProcess containers so the Windows exporter runs as a host-process pod; Prometheus Operator deploys Prometheus, a ServiceMonitor targets the exporter, and Grafana imports dashboard 20763. Exporter collectors (CPU, memory, container, process) require explicit enabling; node metrics come from Windows performance counters and the kubelet stats API. Prometheus successfully scrapes node metrics; container metrics may need extra collector/config steps.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Windows monitoring intro
- 3:56Windows containers in K8s
- 7:04Prometheus architecture for Kubernetes monitoring
- 10:25Prometheus config for Windows
- 13:15Metrics sources Windows vs Linux
- 15:03Windows host process containers
- 16:00Demo setup Windows host process
- 19:57Prometheus Grafana integration demo
- 24:13Add Prometheus to Grafana
- 27:16Windows metrics dashboard
- 28:32Node and container stats via API
- 30:12Windows monitoring gap
- 32:42Custom metrics future
- 33:24Q&A
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