Making Legacy Modern: How to Monitor and Fine Tune the Performance of Your Windows Clusters

This talk addresses common challenges in running Windows clusters at scale, focusing on cost reduction and optimal resource utilization. Speakers Brandon Smith and Howard Hao from Microsoft introduce an open-source tool for monitoring and alerting on performance and reliability issues in Windows clusters. They cover the installation of the windows-exporter via HostProcess containers, best practices for monitoring with Prometheus, and how Windows behaves under various workload scenarios to avoid pitfalls. The session highlights strategies for transitioning legacy applications to modern cloud infrastructure on Windows Kubernetes, emphasizing performance tuning and monitoring techniques.