Using the new Windows performance counter discovery

In Zabbix 6, it is possible to discover Windows performance counters. In this recipe, we will go over the process of discovering Windows performance counters to use in our environments.

Discovering Windows performance counters might seem to be a little tricky at first, as it uses both Windows- and Zabbix-specific concepts. But once we finish this recipe you'll know exactly how to set it up.

Getting ready

In this chapter, we added the lar-book-disc-win host to our setup, which is the host used in our Zabbix agent discovery process. We can reuse this host to discover Windows performance counters easily.

Of course, we'll also need our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

1. Let's start by navigating to Configuration | Templates and creating a new template by clicking Create template in the top-right corner.
2. Create the following template:

Figure 7.27 – Configuration...