Ansible Role: Windows exporter

This role installs Prometheus' Windows exporter on Windows hosts.

Requirements

N/A

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

windows_exporter_version: '0.18.1'

The version of Windows exporter to install. Available releases can be found on the tags listing in the Windows exporter repository. Drop the v off the tag.

If you change the version, the windows_exporter binary will be replaced with the updated version, and the service will be restarted.

windows_exporter_arch: 'amd64'
windows_exporter_download_url: https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter/releases/download/v{{ windows_exporter_version }}/windows_exporter-{{ windows_exporter_version }}-{{ windows_exporter_arch }}.msi


windows_exporter_bin_path: 'C:\Windows\temp\windows_exporter-{{ windows_exporter_version }}-{{ windows_exporter_arch }}.msi'

The path where the windows_exporter binary will be downloaded and installed from.

windows_exporter_listen_address: '0.0.0.0'
windows_exporter_listen_port: 9182
windows_exporter_textfile_dir: null

Commonly used service options.

windows_exporter_options: ''

Any additional options to pass to windows_exporter when it starts, e.g. --no-collector.wifi if you want to ignore any WiFi data. Need to use MSI Parameters as stated in https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter#installation

windows_exporter_state: started
windows_exporter_start_mode: delayed

Controls for the windows_exporter service. windows_exporter_start_mode controls the start_mode of the service. windows_exporter_state controls the state of the service on the host.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: danielweeber.windows_exporter

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2021 by Daniel Weeber. Heavily inspired and forked from Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.