Is it possible to monitor Windows machine performance remotely?

[John Dexter]

I'd like to gather some basic metrics on all machines in our client-server system (let's say a half-dozen servers and 30 workstations), all running Windows... basically the sort of things Task Manager shows: CPU/Ram/Network %

Windows_Exporter exposes a lot of information but needs to run on each machine. Is it possible to gather this remotely somehow - I don't actually know if Windows exposes it let alone whether there's a Prometheus exporter. If we had to write our own I guess we might just install windows_exporter everywhere but if there's something out there already, it would be a bit neater.

Thanks.

[Brian Candler]

For background and suggestions see: https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter/issues/510