Better monitoring of Windows machines

Of course, "better" is a relative term. For my specific use case, I'm using Telegraf, along with all the input plug-ins I can think of to scrape data from Windows.

However, although I'm getting in-depth information about my wife's NVidia GPU, I'm getting no information about CPU temperatures, voltages, power draw, or anything else that the motherboard might be capable of reporting.

After a quick search for something similar to lm-sensors for Windows, I found Open Hardware Monitor: https://openhardwaremonitor.org/
It has a user interface. This isn't what I want, as I have InfluxDB visualizations.

So I tighten my search to include InfluxDB, and I find OhmGraphite: https://github.com/nickbabcock/OhmGraphite
Looking through the documentation, it seems that it'll write to InfluxDB.

So I install it, change the config file to point to my Telegraf gateway instance, and I start it.



What do you know? That's handy!

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