# Windows metric counters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-metric-counters/59728>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 3, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-metric-counters/59728 "2016-09-03T13:26:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Zfs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zfs/32/13370_2.png) [@Zfs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zfs)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-metric-counters/59728/1 "2016-09-03T13:26:31Z")

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It would be great if metricbeat on windows accepted input for additional counters similar to how telegraf allows for it. This would allow measuring any metric available on windows.

> **[influxdata/telegraf](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters)**
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> telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-metric-counters/59728/2 "2016-09-05T05:49:33Z")

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Would you be willing to raise a github feature request for this? [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues)

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**Author:** ![Zfs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zfs/32/13370_2.png) [@Zfs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zfs)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-metric-counters/59728/3 "2016-09-05T11:24:14Z")

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Yeah, I'll do that.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/windows-metric-counters/59728/4 "2016-09-24T13:27:04Z")

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