Funny story ... once i added "relabel_configs" to the Windows Exporter job, it worked great for my alerts.

Not so great for the Grafana Windows Exporter Dashboard (ID:21697). Some of the metrics were showing 2 values:

• one for {hostname="servername", instance="servername:9182", job="windows_exporter"}
• and the other for {instance="servername:9182", job="windows_exporter"}

Anyway, that's for another thread. Gonna go get a stiff double shot to drown my sorrows.