# How to collect disk performance counter of remote windows

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613>\
**Category:** Telegraf\
**Tags:** telegraf\
**Created:** [October 8, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613 "2017-10-08T03:27:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![ricoisme](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/ricoisme/32/733_2.png) [@ricoisme](https://community.influxdata.com/u/ricoisme)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613/1 "2017-10-08T03:27:22Z")

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Hi Experts

I have already a decaited collect server.

I have a few questions as below:

1. can I collect disk performance counter of remote windows via [win\_perf\_counters] ?([telegraf/plugins/inputs/win\_perf\_counters at master · influxdata/telegraf · GitHub](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_perf_counters))

2. can I point to a special database of influxdb and create a measurement?

because I have already a kafka database in influxdb and I would like to add new measurement into exists kafka database.

if telegraf can do it or any good ideas please advice me.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/daniel/32/142_2.png) [@daniel](https://community.influxdata.com/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613/2 "2017-10-09T19:32:45Z")

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We don’t currently have support for remote collection with win\_perf\_counters ([github issue](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1899)).

To send measurements to a specific InfluxDB database you can use the plugins `database` option, you will probably want to pair it with some of the [measurement filtering](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.md#measurement-filtering) options if you are sending only some of the measurements to this database. [Here is an example of how to configure the output](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.md#output-configuration-examples).

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**Author:** ![ricoisme](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/ricoisme/32/733_2.png) [@ricoisme](https://community.influxdata.com/u/ricoisme)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613/3 "2017-10-10T02:19:31Z")

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I See.  
Thanks for your explanation.

I have a another question.

for win\_services, can I get win services state of remote ?  
[win\_services](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/win_services)  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![daniel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/daniel/32/142_2.png) [@daniel](https://community.influxdata.com/u/daniel)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613/4 "2017-10-10T17:54:36Z")

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No, there is no support for remote collection in win\_service input at this time. I think the most common setup is to run Telegraf on each system.

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**Author:** ![ricoisme](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/ricoisme/32/733_2.png) [@ricoisme](https://community.influxdata.com/u/ricoisme)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-collect-disk-performance-counter-of-remote-windows/2613/5 "2017-10-11T13:48:32Z")

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I See.

Thanks for prompt replay