[metric/system/diskio] On Windows network shares are not reported.

[leehinman]

In Windows diskio to network mapped drives is not reported.

1. use net use to map a network drive. net use Z: \\VBOXSVR\vagrant
2. in cmd.exe switch to the drive. Z:
3. start metricbeat with system module enabled and just diskio metricset
4. in cmd.exe create some disk io. echo "some long string" > newfile.txt

We do see events for the C: drive, but nothing for the Z: drive.

We do see the following error:

{"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2024-05-28T09:16:49.163-0700","log.origin":{"function":"github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics/metric/system/diskio.ioCounters","file.name":"diskio/diskstat_windows_helper.go","file.line":75},"message":"Could not return any performance counter values for \\\\.\\Z: .Error: Incorrect function.","service.name":"metricbeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}

We need to either fix or update the documentation for windows diskio that network drives will not be reported.

[nerophon]

It looks like the problem may be here:
https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/blob/master/disk/disk_windows.go#L202

[dot-mike]

This is still an issue. Encountered it in https://discuss.elastic.co/t/diskstat-windows-could-not-return-any-performance-counter/378033

Fix:

Add these two types in the field List of filesystem types to ignore

• unavailable
• unknown

As options to the integration for system under: Collect metrics from System instances :

• System filesystem metrics
• System fsstat metrics