Demystifying Monitoring and Debugging on Windows Containers
Talkat Observability Day 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 15:55· Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C·
summary
Demo deploys a Prometheus stack that uses Windows exporter on port 9182 with default CPU/memory/OS collectors plus optional container/process/net collectors, a ServiceMonitor, and Grafana dashboards; nodes run Containerd on Windows Server 2022. Debugging uses HostProcess container base image (~6–8KB) launched via a custom kubectl debug yaml to get host file access, run collect-logs.ps1 to capture HNS ETL traces, and kubectl cp to retrieve logs for offline analysis. Metrics and node-level debugging both work end-to-end.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Windows container monitoring intro
- 1:04Why Windows containers matter
- 2:50Kubernetes Windows nodes setup
- 4:13Monitoring gaps in Windows
- 4:33Host process containers explained
- 5:38Monitoring Windows nodes
- 7:45Debugging Windows nodes
- 9:29Host process containers for debug
- 13:49Demo and Grafana dashboard
- 17:21Live Windows node debug
- 22:14Summary and resources
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