Grafana Agent for Windows Logging: bookmark_path invalid argument error

[aditya-opsverse]

Describe the bug

I am trying to use the Grafana Agent for Windows to monitor the metrics and logs for some Windows Server 2016 Datacenter machines. Some of the servers are facing the invalid argument error for bookmark_path.

The configuration on all of the servers is the same. This issue comes up intermittently on some machines after the services have run for some time.

Issue: When using the bookmark_path key in the Windows event logging configuration file as described in the Grafana documentation, the system throws the following error:

Error Message:

level=error msg="error creating the agent server entrypoint" err="unable to apply config for windows-var-log: unable to create logs instance: failed to make windows target manager: failed to create bookmark using path=C:\\Program Files\\Grafana Agent\\bookmark.xml: invalid argument"

Config:
agent-config.yaml

prometheus:
  global:
    scrape_interval: 30s
  wal_directory: C:\ProgramData\grafana-agent-wal
  configs:
    - name: default
      scrape_configs:
        - job_name: integrations/windows-exporter
          static_configs:
          - targets: ['127.0.0.1:9182']
          relabel_configs:
            - source_labels: [__address__]
              regex: '.*'
              target_label: instance
              replacement: <host>
      remote_write:
        - url: <url>
          basic_auth:
            username: <username>
            password: <password>

loki:
  positions_directory: C:\ProgramData\grafana-agent-wal
  configs:
    - name: windows-var-log
      clients:
        - url: <url>
          basic_auth:
            username: <username>
            password: <password>
      scrape_configs:
        - job_name: windows-var-log
          static_configs:
            - labels:
                job: windows-var-log
                host: <host>
        - job_name: windows
          windows_events:
            use_incoming_timestamp: false
            bookmark_path: "C:\\Program Files\\Grafana Agent\\bookmark.xml"
            eventlog_name: "Application"
            xpath_query: '*'
            labels:
              job: windows-events
          relabel_configs:
            - source_labels: ['computer']
              target_label: 'host'

Desired Outcome:
The metrics and logs should be accessible on Grafana without any errors related to the bookmark_path argument.

Environment:

Windows Server 2016 Datacenter