Ben Pickhardt

Same issue on Server 2019. Fresh installed machines running the windows_exporter agent do not start the agent on reboot. Playing with the automatic restart options did not resolve the issue.

I set my servers to delayed start and it seemed to at least start correctly when Windows started up. I'm unsure if it would restart on failure correctly or not...

The 2019 machines I was seeing the problem on are AD joined and hardened with the CIS guidelines. I never had issues last year when I was still using Windows...

In my case, almost all my Windows Server 2016/2019 machines will start the service with the automatic delayed startup after a reboot. I seem to always have a few that...

I installed 0.15 yesterday because I noticed added a dependency for the Windows service on the WMI service. I experienced the same problem where the service would not start with...

I decided to test my theory about changing the service dependency to the "Windows Management Instrumentation" service. I changed the service start up type back to automatic from delayed start...