How to enable CPU temperature monitoring with Telegraf on Windows 11

2 min readDec 31, 2022

If your PC can execute the following “wmic” command on the PowerShell terminal then you DO NOT need to read this content. Just uncomment [[inputs.temperature]] on your Telegraf configuration file, then it is fine.

> wmic /namespace:\\root\wmi PATH MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature

How to install the Telegraf

> wget https://dl.influxdata.com/telegraf/releases/telegraf-1.XX.X_windows_amd64.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile telegraf-_windows_amd64.zip
> Expand-Archive .\telegraf-_windows_amd64.zip -DestinationPath 'C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf\'
> cd "C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf"
> mv .\telegraf-1.XX.X\telegraf.* .

Please replace XX.X to the latest version numbers.

How to install the OpenHardwareMonitor

Downloads

The free Open Hardware Monitor software runs on Microsoft Windows with the .NET Framework version 4.5 and above. On…

openhardwaremonitor.org

Download it and unzip it in C:\Program Files\InfluxData\

How to install the NSSM

NSSM — the Non-Sucking Service Manager

2017–04–26: Users of Windows 10 Creators Update or newer should use prelease build 2.24–101 or any newer build to avoid…

nssm.cc

Download it and unzip it in C:\Program Files\InfluxData\

How to run the OpenHardwareMonitor service with the NSSM

> cd "C:\Program Files\InfluxData\nssm-2.24\win64"
> .\nssm.exe install OpenHardwareMonitor

Then input “OpenHardwareMonitor” execution to Path and Setup Dir as following

Start the OpenHardwareMonitor as a service

> .\nssm.exe start OpenHardwareMonitor

> cd "C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf"

Download PowerShell script into current directory.

GitHub - vla7/telegraf_windows_cpu_temperature: Telegraf collect windows CPU temperature via…

Telegraf collect windows CPU temperature via OpenHardwareMonitor - GitHub - vla7/telegraf_windows_cpu_temperature…

github.com

> powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File "C:\Program Files\influxData\telegraf\xps-13-9370.ps1"

Got CPU temperature information

Edit telegraf.conf

[[inputs.exec]]
#   ## Commands array
    commands = ['powershell -executionpolicy bypass -File "C:/Program Files/influxData/telegraf/xps-13-9370.ps1"']
    data_format = "influx"

Test telegraf.conf

> .\telegraf.exe --config C:\"Program Files"\InfluxData\telegraf\telegraf.conf --test

Then enable the Telegraf

> .\telegraf.exe --service install --config "C:\Program Files\InfluxData\telegraf\telegraf.conf"
> .\telegraf.exe --service start

DONE