WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is a built-in Windows technology that lets administrators read system information and performance counters from local or remote Windows computers. You can think of it as a standard interface to ask Windows questions like “what is the CPU load?”, “how much memory is available?”, “how much disk space is free?”, or “is a specific process running?”—without installing extra monitoring agents in many cases.
WMI monitoring with IPNetwork Monitor. IPNetwork Monitor uses WMI to collect a wide range of Windows performance and health metrics. Built-in WMI monitor types include WMI CPU load and WMI CPU (CPU utilization), WMI Available Memory and WMI Memory (memory metrics), WMI Disk space (free/used space per filesystem without requiring a network share), WMI Process (process count and resource usage), and WMI Uptime (system uptime). For network usage on Windows hosts, WMI Traffic Speed and WMI Traffic Volume can measure inbound/outbound/total traffic per interface. If you need a metric that isn’t covered by the presets, WMI Custom lets you run a custom WMI query/script to return a specific value, making it possible to monitor almost any Windows-exposed counter through the same IPNetwork Monitor workflow (polling intervals, thresholds, and alerting rules).
