Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by *NIX kernels, written in Go with pluggable metric collectors.
The WMI exporter is recommended for Windows users.
There is varying support for collectors on each operating system. The tables below list all existing collectors and the supported systems.
Which collectors are used is controlled by the --collectors.enabled
flag.
Name | Description | OS |
---|---|---|
arp | Exposes ARP statistics from /proc/net/arp . |
Linux |
conntrack | Shows conntrack statistics (does nothing if no /proc/sys/net/netfilter/ present). |
Linux |
cpu | Exposes CPU statistics | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD |
diskstats | Exposes disk I/O statistics from /proc/diskstats . |
Linux |
edac | Exposes error detection and correction statistics. | Linux |
entropy | Exposes available entropy. | Linux |
exec | Exposes execution statistics. | Dragonfly, FreeBSD |
filefd | Exposes file descriptor statistics from /proc/sys/fs/file-nr . |
Linux |
filesystem | Exposes filesystem statistics, such as disk space used. | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD |
hwmon | Expose hardware monitoring and sensor data from /sys/class/hwmon/ . |
Linux |
infiniband | Exposes network statistics specific to InfiniBand configurations. | Linux |
loadavg | Exposes load average. | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris |
mdadm | Exposes statistics about devices in /proc/mdstat (does nothing if no /proc/mdstat present). |
Linux |
meminfo | Exposes memory statistics. | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, Linux |
netdev | Exposes network interface statistics such as bytes transferred. | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD |
netstat | Exposes network statistics from /proc/net/netstat . This is the same information as netstat -s . |
Linux |
sockstat | Exposes various statistics from /proc/net/sockstat . |
Linux |
stat | Exposes various statistics from /proc/stat . This includes CPU usage, boot time, forks and interrupts. |
Linux |
textfile | Exposes statistics read from local disk. The --collector.textfile.directory flag must be set. |
any |
time | Exposes the current system time. | any |
uname | Exposes system information as provided by the uname system call. | Linux |
vmstat | Exposes statistics from /proc/vmstat . |
Linux |
wifi | Exposes WiFi device and station statistics. | Linux |
xfs | Exposes XFS runtime statistics. | Linux (kernel 4.4+) |
zfs | Exposes ZFS performance statistics. | Linux |
Name | Description | OS |
---|---|---|
bonding | Exposes the number of configured and active slaves of Linux bonding interfaces. | Linux |
buddyinfo | Exposes statistics of memory fragments as reported by /proc/buddyinfo. | Linux |
devstat | Exposes device statistics | Dragonfly, FreeBSD |
drbd | Exposes Distributed Replicated Block Device statistics | Linux |
interrupts | Exposes detailed interrupts statistics. | Linux, OpenBSD |
ipvs | Exposes IPVS status from /proc/net/ip_vs and stats from /proc/net/ip_vs_stats . |
Linux |
ksmd | Exposes kernel and system statistics from /sys/kernel/mm/ksm . |
Linux |
logind | Exposes session counts from logind. | Linux |
meminfo_numa | Exposes memory statistics from /proc/meminfo_numa . |
Linux |
mountstats | Exposes filesystem statistics from /proc/self/mountstats . Exposes detailed NFS client statistics. |
Linux |
nfs | Exposes NFS client statistics from /proc/net/rpc/nfs . This is the same information as nfsstat -c . |
Linux |
runit | Exposes service status from runit. | any |
supervisord | Exposes service status from supervisord. | any |
systemd | Exposes service and system status from systemd. | Linux |
tcpstat | Exposes TCP connection status information from /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6 . (Warning: the current version has potential performance issues in high load situations.) |
Linux |
These collectors will be (re)moved in the future.
Name | Description | OS |
---|---|---|
gmond | Exposes statistics from Ganglia. | any |
megacli | Exposes RAID statistics from MegaCLI. | Linux |
ntp | Exposes time drift from an NTP server. | any |
The textfile collector is similar to the Pushgateway, in that it allows exporting of statistics from batch jobs. It can also be used to export static metrics, such as what role a machine has. The Pushgateway should be used for service-level metrics. The textfile module is for metrics that are tied to a machine.
To use it, set the --collector.textfile.directory
flag on the Node exporter. The
collector will parse all files in that directory matching the glob *.prom
using the text
format.
To atomically push completion time for a cron job:
echo my_batch_job_completion_time $(date +%s) > /path/to/directory/my_batch_job.prom.$$
mv /path/to/directory/my_batch_job.prom.$$ /path/to/directory/my_batch_job.prom
To statically set roles for a machine using labels:
echo 'role{role="application_server"} 1' > /path/to/directory/role.prom.$$
mv /path/to/directory/role.prom.$$ /path/to/directory/role.prom
make
./node_exporter <flags>
To see all available configuration flags:
./node_exporter -h
make test
The node_exporter is designed to monitor the host system. It's not recommended to deploy it as Docker container because it requires access to the host system. If you need to run it on Docker, you can deploy this exporter using the node-exporter Docker image with the following options and bind-mounts:
docker run -d -p 9100:9100 \
-v "/proc:/host/proc" \
-v "/sys:/host/sys" \
-v "/:/rootfs" \
--net="host" \
quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter \
-collector.procfs /host/proc \
-collector.sysfs /host/sys \
-collector.filesystem.ignored-mount-points "^/(sys|proc|dev|host|etc)($|/)"
Be aware though that the mountpoint label in various metrics will now have
/host
as prefix.
There is a community-supplied COPR repository. It closely follows upstream releases.