Grafana 11.1.2 and RHEL8x
Wanted to know varies methods to support Windows 2008R2 & RHEL6.10 OS monitoring
I know these OS are end of life however due to varies reason still many customers uses.
What are the things you want to monitor in these systems?
Basic metrics such as CPU, Memory, Disk, I/O, NIC, Process & Services.
I believe the metrics exporter (ie alloy, windows_exporter) are EOL agnostic.
See these docus.
Grafana is not particularly picky, if you can find a data collector that works on those OS then you can see that data in Grafana. Not a whole lot has changed on the monitoring side in windows since 2008, I’d start with just trying it using the current exporters/alloy and see if they will run, if they do then you should be good to go. If they dont you can start looking around for older alternatives, for example old versions of the telegraf agent or statsd would have been around in that era. Worst case you can always fall back to SNMP for the data you are asking about. It’s been around since the 80’s and the agent still works.
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It has been changed a little, e. g. recent Golang versions don’t support Win 2008 anymore, so all monitoring tools, which are written in Golang and built with recent Golang version have a problem to run on Win 2008:
Of course nobody is stopping you to build all those tools with older Golang version on your own.
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