Windows monitoring and alerting test
Run a series of resource experiments on Windows hosts to verify that your monitoring and alerting tools detect spikes in CPU, disk I/O, memory, and packet latency.
CPU
Disk
Memory
Latency
Windows
20 minutes
How this Scenario works
This Scenario runs four sequential resource experiments on your Windows hosts, each generating a short spike in a different resource: CPU, disk I/O, memory, and network latency. This exercises the full breadth of your observability stack against real resource pressure on Windows infrastructure.
Why run this Scenario?
This Scenario helps test your observabilty tool by causing short spikes in four different resources. This lets you:
- Verify that your monitoring agent is correctly collecting performance metrics from Windows Server systems.
- Detect gaps in alert coverage for critical Windows host resources, including Windows Performance Counters.
- Validate that alert thresholds and notification routing work as configured for your Windows infrastructure.
- Build confidence that resource-level issues on Windows hosts will be caught before they impact services.
What to expect when you run it
As each experiment runs, your monitoring tools show corresponding spikes in CPU, disk I/O, memory usage, and packet latency with minimal delay.
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