Log the instance of win_perf_counters causing invalid data or negative value

[perzizzle]

Feature Request

Log instance name of a windows performance counter that is causing logs similar to:
will skip metric: A counter with a negative value was detected.
will skip metric: The returned data is not valid.

Proposal:

Current behavior:

2021-07-11T09:26:41Z W! [inputs.win_perf_counters] error while getting value for counter "\.NET CLR Memory(*)\Gen 0 Promoted Bytes/Sec", will skip metric: The returned data is not valid.

Desired behavior:

2021-07-11T09:26:41Z W! [inputs.win_perf_counters] error while getting value for counter "\.NET CLR Memory(*)\Gen 0 Promoted Bytes/Sec", Instance:Foo will skip metric: The returned data is not valid.

Use case:

I'm intermittently getting thousands of log lines similar to this across a variety of our infratructure and am not sure how to identify the culprit instance.

2021-07-11T09:26:41Z W! [inputs.win_perf_counters] error while getting value for counter "\.NET CLR Memory()\Gen 0 Promoted Bytes/Sec", will skip metric: The returned data is not valid.
2021-07-11T09:26:41Z W! [inputs.win_perf_counters] error while getting value for counter "\.NET CLR Memory()\Gen 1 Promoted Bytes/Sec", will skip metric: The returned data is not valid.

I've tried using perfmon to identify a negative value but it either isn't logged or its lost in all of the other instances. As well as using telegraf --config test.conf --test.

[reimda]

Could you test #10995 and see if it does what you're looking for? Thanks!

[telegraf-tiger]

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