Rename to windows_exporter, move to prometheus-community

[carlpett]

As decided in #499, we will rename the exporter to windows_exporter. This issue tracks the required changes.
After these steps are completed, we will be ready to move the repo to the prometheus-community organization 🎉

• Change metric namespace (collector.go).
• Change textfile collector defaults.
• Change Go module name.
• Update build automation.
• Change the installer.
• Update contrib/console_templates.
• Update docs.
• Rename repo.

[Mario-Hofstaetter]

This there an ETA on this to prepare for?
Since renaming the metrics is quite the breaking change and we are just rolling out the exporter and dashboards.

[carlpett]

Hey @Mario-Hofstaetter,
Very good question! There's a bunch of unreleased changes on master (three new collectors!), so I will make sure that is released as 0.12. Then hopefully do the move within the next week, workload permitting.
I have prepared most of the changes, but ran out of time to validate them. Especially the installer requires a bit of care.

If you want to prepare your environment, you could actually set up a metric relabeling in the Prometheus server to switch the metric namespace already with the current versions. Something like this:

  - job_name: windows
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['localhost:9182']
    metric_relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: ['__name__']
      target_label: '__name__'
      regex: 'wmi_(.*)'
      replacement: 'windows_$1'

[andrewmostello]

On the Chocolatey front, I've created a new package with the new name: prometheus-windows-exporter.install. That's usable now with v0.12.0 to smooth the transition.

0.12 will be the last release pushed to prometheus-wmi-exporter.install. After the name change, I'll deprecate that package according to the Chocolatey guidelines here: Deprecate a Package. All updates will then go to the new package.

If any issues arise, please let me know and I'll address them.

I've also renamed the repository with the Chocolatey scripts. That's now here: prometheus-windows-exporter.install.

[carlpett]

Thanks @andrewmostello!
The rename+move is now done, we just need to sort our CI and then we'll publish a new release.

[andrewmostello]

Great - sounds good!

[carlpett]

There's a 0.13 release pushed now, marked as pre-release. Please give it a spin!

[Mario-Hofstaetter]

@carlpett Will final release be 1.0 to reflect the breaking change? Seems more suiting than 0.13.

[carlpett]

@Mario-Hofstaetter We have a discussion in #537 about the road to 1.0. In short, there's some additional cleanup I'd like to get done which would otherwise require a major version bump, but after that, it's time for 1.0.

[sunilgks]

How do I configure exporter to extract MS SQL server metrics?

[carlpett]

Since this issue appears to draw generic usage questions, I'll lock this. If you need help with how to use Prometheus or exporters in general, please see the Community resources.