pdh: report duplicate instances by occurrence instead of renaming them (#2742)

Signed-off-by: Jan-Otto Kröpke <mail@jkroepke.de>
2026-10-17 10:09:05 +02:00 · 2026-10-16 09:58:43 +02:00
parent d8dbf852d1
commit 43d77f6869
32 changed files with 832 additions and 266 deletions
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ The name of the label that holds the instance name. Optional and defaults to `in

 The label is only added if `instances` is set.

+Some objects report the same instance name more than once in a sample, for example `Process` reports every `svchost` process as `svchost`.
+The first instance keeps its name, later ones get the suffix `#1`, `#2` and so on, skipping names that Windows reported itself, such as a network adapter `Ethernet#2`.
+The suffix depends on the order of the sample and does not identify an instance across scrapes.
+
 #### counters

 List of counters to collect from the object. See the counters sub-schema for more information.