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Improve Custom WMI Input Package documentation

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@andrewkroh andrewkroh added Integration:wmi Custom WMI Input Package documentation Improvements or additions to documentation. Applied to PRs that modify *.md files. Team:Obs-InfraObs Observability Infrastructure Monitoring team [elastic/obs-infraobs-integrations] labels Sep 17, 2025
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just a few questions

The extensive documentation for the input is currently available [here](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-windows-wmi). We highly encourage users to become familiar with the linked documentation.
There is no way to directly stop a query once it has started. To prevent
Metricbeat from waiting indefinitely for a query to return a result or
fail, Metricbeat has a timeout mechanism that stops waiting for query
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same as the previous comment

query. The default is `root\cimv2`.

**`wmi.warning_threshold`**
: The time threshold after which Metricbeat will stop waiting for the
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same as the previous comment

document. The default value is `false`.

**`wmi.include_null_properties`**
: If set to `true` the metricset includes the properties that have null
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same here

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