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# Node exporter

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Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by \*NIX kernels, written
in Go with pluggable metric collectors.

The [Windows exporter](https://github.com/prometheus-community/windows_exporter) is recommended for Windows users.
To expose NVIDIA GPU metrics, [prometheus-dcgm
](https://github.com/NVIDIA/gpu-monitoring-tools/tree/master/exporters/prometheus-dcgm)
can be used.

## Collectors

There is varying support for collectors on each operating system. The tables
below list all existing collectors and the supported systems.

Collectors are enabled by providing a `--collector.<name>` flag.
Collectors that are enabled by default can be disabled by providing a `--no-collector.<name>` flag.

### Enabled by default

Name     | Description | OS
---------|-------------|----
arp | Exposes ARP statistics from `/proc/net/arp`. | Linux
bcache | Exposes bcache statistics from `/sys/fs/bcache/`. | Linux
bonding | Exposes the number of configured and active slaves of Linux bonding interfaces. | Linux
boottime | Exposes system boot time derived from the `kern.boottime` sysctl. | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris
conntrack | Shows conntrack statistics (does nothing if no `/proc/sys/net/netfilter/` present). | Linux
cpu | Exposes CPU statistics | Darwin, Dragonfly, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris
cpufreq | Exposes CPU frequency statistics | Linux, Solaris
diskstats | Exposes disk I/O statistics. | Darwin, Linux, OpenBSD
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 and Intel OmniPath configurations. | Linux
ipvs | Exposes IPVS status from `/proc/net/ip_vs` and stats from `/proc/net/ip_vs_stats`. | 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, OpenBSD
netclass | Exposes network interface info from `/sys/class/net/` | 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
nfs | Exposes NFS client statistics from `/proc/net/rpc/nfs`. This is the same information as `nfsstat -c`. | Linux
nfsd | Exposes NFS kernel server statistics from `/proc/net/rpc/nfsd`. This is the same information as `nfsstat -s`. | Linux
pressure | Exposes pressure stall statistics from `/proc/pressure/`. | Linux (kernel 4.20+ and/or [CONFIG\_PSI](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt))
rapl | Exposes various statistics from `/sys/class/powercap`. | Linux
schedstat | Exposes task scheduler statistics from `/proc/schedstat`. | Linux
sockstat | Exposes various statistics from `/proc/net/sockstat`. | Linux
softnet | Exposes statistics from `/proc/net/softnet_stat`. | Linux
stat | Exposes various statistics from `/proc/stat`. This includes boot time, forks and interrupts. | Linux
textfile | Exposes statistics read from local disk. The `--collector.textfile.directory` flag must be set. | _any_
thermal\_zone | Exposes thermal zone & cooling device statistics from `/sys/class/thermal`. | Linux
time | Exposes the current system time. | _any_
timex | Exposes selected adjtimex(2) system call stats. | Linux
udp_queues | Exposes UDP total lengths of the rx_queue and tx_queue from `/proc/net/udp` and `/proc/net/udp6`. | Linux
uname | Exposes system information as provided by the uname system call. | Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD
vmstat | Exposes statistics from `/proc/vmstat`. | Linux
xfs | Exposes XFS runtime statistics. | Linux (kernel 4.4+)
zfs | Exposes [ZFS](http://open-zfs.org/) performance statistics. | [Linux](http://zfsonlinux.org/), Solaris

### Disabled by default

The perf collector may not work by default on all Linux systems due to kernel
configuration and security settings. To allow access, set the following sysctl
parameter:

```
sysctl -w kernel.perf_event_paranoid=X
```

- 2 allow only user-space measurements (default since Linux 4.6).
- 1 allow both kernel and user measurements (default before Linux 4.6).
- 0 allow access to CPU-specific data but not raw tracepoint samples.
- -1 no restrictions.

Depending on the configured value different metrics will be available, for most
cases `0` will provide the most complete set. For more information see [`man 2
perf_event_open`](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/perf_event_open.2.html).

By default, the perf collector will only collect metrics of the CPUs that
`node_exporter` is running on (ie
[`runtime.NumCPU`](https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#NumCPU). If this is
insufficient (e.g. if you run `node_exporter` with its CPU affinity set to
specific CPUs), you can specify a list of alternate CPUs by using the
`--collector.perf.cpus` flag. For example, to collect metrics on CPUs 2-6, you
would specify: `--collector.perf --collector.perf.cpus=2-6`. The CPU
configuration is zero indexed and can also take a stride value; e.g.
`--collector.perf --collector.perf.cpus=1-10:5` would collect on CPUs
1, 5, and 10.

The perf collector is also able to collect
[tracepoint](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/tracepoint.html)
counts when using the `--collector.perf.tracepoint` flag. Tracepoints can be
found using [`perf list`](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/perf.1.html) or
from debugfs. And example usage of this would be
`--collector.perf.tracepoint="sched:sched_process_exec"`.


Name     | Description | OS
---------|-------------|----
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 (to version 8.4) | Linux
interrupts | Exposes detailed interrupts statistics. | Linux, OpenBSD
ksmd | Exposes kernel and system statistics from `/sys/kernel/mm/ksm`. | Linux
logind | Exposes session counts from [logind](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/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
ntp | Exposes local NTP daemon health to check [time](./docs/TIME.md) | _any_
processes | Exposes aggregate process statistics from `/proc`. | Linux
qdisc | Exposes [queuing discipline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_scheduler#Linux_kernel) statistics | Linux
runit | Exposes service status from [runit](http://smarden.org/runit/). | _any_
supervisord | Exposes service status from [supervisord](http://supervisord.org/). | _any_
systemd | Exposes service and system status from [systemd](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/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
wifi | Exposes WiFi device and station statistics. | Linux
perf | Exposes perf based metrics (Warning: Metrics are dependent on kernel configuration and settings). | Linux

### Textfile Collector

The textfile collector is similar to the [Pushgateway](https://github.com/prometheus/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](http://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/). **Note:** Timestamps are not supported.

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
```

### Filtering enabled collectors

The `node_exporter` will expose all metrics from enabled collectors by default.  This is the recommended way to collect metrics to avoid errors when comparing metrics of different families.

For advanced use the `node_exporter` can be passed an optional list of collectors to filter metrics. The `collect[]` parameter may be used multiple times.  In Prometheus configuration you can use this syntax under the [scrape config](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#<scrape_config>).

```
  params:
    collect[]:
      - foo
      - bar
```

This can be useful for having different Prometheus servers collect specific metrics from nodes.

## Building and running

Prerequisites:

* [Go compiler](https://golang.org/dl/)
* RHEL/CentOS: `glibc-static` package.

Building:

    go get github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
    cd ${GOPATH-$HOME/go}/src/github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
    make
    ./node_exporter <flags>

To see all available configuration flags:

    ./node_exporter -h

## Running tests

    make test

## TLS endpoint

** EXPERIMENTAL **

The exporter supports TLS via a new web configuration file.

```console
./node_exporter --web.config=web-config.yml
```

See the [https package](https/README.md) for more details.

## Using Docker
The `node_exporter` is designed to monitor the host system. It's not recommended
to deploy it as a Docker container because it requires access to the host system.
Be aware that any non-root mount points you want to monitor will need to be bind-mounted
into the container.
If you start container for host monitoring, specify `path.rootfs` argument.
This argument must match path in bind-mount of host root. The node\_exporter will use
`path.rootfs` as prefix to access host filesystem.

```bash
docker run -d \
  --net="host" \
  --pid="host" \
  -v "/:/host:ro,rslave" \
  quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter \
  --path.rootfs=/host
```

On some systems, the `timex` collector requires an additional Docker flag,
`--cap-add=SYS_TIME`, in order to access the required syscalls.

## Using a third-party repository for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

There is a [community-supplied COPR repository](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ibotty/prometheus-exporters/) which closely follows upstream releases.

[travis]: https://travis-ci.org/prometheus/node_exporter
[hub]: https://hub.docker.com/r/prom/node-exporter/
[circleci]: https://circleci.com/gh/prometheus/node_exporter
[quay]: https://quay.io/repository/prometheus/node-exporter
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