# 1.x or 2.0 for Windows metrics?

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/1-x-or-2-0-for-windows-metrics/15903>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 2\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [September 8, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/1-x-or-2-0-for-windows-metrics/15903 "2020-09-08T14:47:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MisterBoy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/misterboy/32/5595_2.png) [@MisterBoy](https://community.influxdata.com/u/MisterBoy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/1-x-or-2-0-for-windows-metrics/15903/1 "2020-09-08T14:47:31Z")

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Hi, I’m brand new to metrics gathering and investigating InfluxDB as well as one or two others.  
I had a couple of queries:

1. Posts on these forums say Windows support is experimental which concerns me, is this still the case? The last I saw was 2019 so it might be outdated but we are exclusively Windows and I wouldn’t want to spend time kludging something together.
2. 2.0 is listed as Beta but realistically if I’m doing some initial investigation and we’d be deploying in a few months, is starting with 1.x a bad idea and 2.0 can be considered stable for normal use? Sorry, I don’t know when 2.0 is due out of Beta.

Thankyou.

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**Author:** ![mhall119](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/mhall119/32/3898_2.png) [@mhall119](https://community.influxdata.com/u/mhall119)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/1-x-or-2-0-for-windows-metrics/15903/2 "2020-09-08T18:01:56Z")

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Are you trying to gather metrics about Windows? Or trying to run InfluxDB on windows?

If you’re trying to collect metrics about Windows, we have a nice InfluxDB Template that will get you started with that right away: [community-templates/windows\_system at master · influxdata/community-templates · GitHub](https://github.com/influxdata/community-templates/tree/master/windows_system)

It uses Telegraf running on your Windows machines to collect those metrics, sending them on to InfluxDB running wherever you want to run it

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**Author:** ![MisterBoy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/misterboy/32/5595_2.png) [@MisterBoy](https://community.influxdata.com/u/MisterBoy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/1-x-or-2-0-for-windows-metrics/15903/3 "2020-09-08T19:32:37Z")

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Hi,

Sorry not to be clearer. It’s a client server system, all workstations and servers run Windows.  
Of course we would probably run Influx (or similar) on a separate server but we’re basically a Microsoft shop.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![mhall119](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/mhall119/32/3898_2.png) [@mhall119](https://community.influxdata.com/u/mhall119)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/1-x-or-2-0-for-windows-metrics/15903/4 "2020-09-09T16:05:17Z")

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Can you run InfluxDB in Docker on Windows?