Collecting windows metrics from multiple systems using one telegraf agent

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Hi,

I’m currently working on a project to setup a host monitoring tool. We aim to use the TIG-stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana). The network we would like to monitor consist of various servers and systems. What I would like to know if it would be possible to have 1 Telegraf agent on a kind of ‘central’ server to read all the systems, instead of installing a Telegraf agent on each individual system. And if so, I would like to know how I need to configure Telegraf to do so.
I’m also open to suggestion using other tools/ plugins to set this up

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I’m sure it’s not possible using the win_perf_counters plugin, as it gets the perf counters on the local machine.
Even without Telegraf, you have to use some not so straightforward ways to monitor perf counters of remote machines.

An option could be the exec plugin with PowerShell scripts, but you will have to deal with PowerShell remoting, execution policy etc…