docs(go.d/windows): add deprecation notice (#19009)
Ilya Mashchenko committed
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+ **Deprecation Notice**: This collector is no longer the recommended method for Windows monitoring and will be removed in a future release.
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+ The official Netdata Agent for Windows now provides a robust and user-friendly solution for real-time system and application performance monitoring. By installing Netdata on your Windows host, you'll gain access to a wide range of metrics and visualizations without the need for additional collectors or complex configurations.
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+ To get started with Netdata on Windows, see the [Netdata Windows Installer](/packaging/windows/WINDOWS_INSTALLER.md).
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This collector monitors the performance of Windows machines, collects both host metrics and metrics from various Windows applications (e.g. Active Directory, MSSQL).
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It collect metrics by periodically sending HTTP requests to [Prometheus exporter for Windows machines](https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter), a native Windows agent running on each host.