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Jan-Otto Kröpke d819362150 mixin: add alerts for the opt-in collectors
Every optional collector of the mixin now has alerts, generated only with
that collector enabled in _config.collectors: clock source, disk drive
status, page file usage, license status, scheduled task results, pending
updates, Hyper-V WMI and replication health, failover cluster nodes,
resources, groups and shared volumes, Storage Spaces pool and virtual disk
health, DHCP scope exhaustion and DNS zone transfer failures. The alerts
of the pagefile, diskdrive and license collectors join the memory, disk
and system groups; the other collectors get a group of their own.

New knobs: taskSelector, sharedVolumeSelector, pagefileUsageThreshold,
dhcpScopeFreeWarningThreshold, dhcpScopeFreeCriticalThreshold and
updatePendingDuration. The test configuration enables every optional
collector and tests/optional.test.yaml covers the new alerts.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Otto Kröpke <mail@jkroepke.de>
2026-10-17 02:28:35 +00:00

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Windows exporter runbooks

These runbooks describe alerts from the Windows exporter mixin. Use the alert's job, instance, and any cluster or environment labels to find the affected host. Disk alerts also identify a volume; network alerts identify a nic. Adjust example PromQL selectors to match your scrape configuration.

The default thresholds are starting points. Check the generated alert rules for your configured thresholds and durations. The rules are grouped by collector area, and each alert is generated only when the collectors it reads are enabled in the mixin configuration. Active Directory and NTP clock alerts need the ad and time collectors, which are off by default, and the alerts for page files, disk drives, licensing, scheduled tasks, updates, Hyper-V, failover clusters, Storage Spaces, DHCP and DNS need the collector of that role.