alertmanager VS node_exporter

Compare alertmanager vs node_exporter and see what are their differences.

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alertmanager node_exporter
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alertmanager

Posts with mentions or reviews of alertmanager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
  • My Raspberry Pi 4 Dashboard
    11 projects | /r/selfhosted | 10 Jan 2023
    - Alert Manager
  • Uptime monitoring (~1000 urls)
    7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Nov 2022
    You could use prometheus as a monitoring tool, blackbox_exporter to "export" the urls to prometheus, alertmanager for notifications, and grafana for nice gui dashboards (and maybe also notifications).
  • Ultra Monitoring with Victoria Metrics
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 May 2022
    vmalert: executes a list of the given alerting or recording rules against configured data sources. For sending alerting notifications vmalert relies on configured Alertmanager. Recording rules results are persisted via remote write protocol. vmalert is heavily inspired by Prometheus implementation and aims to be compatible with its syntax
  • Can Prometheus act similar to OPC A&E server?
    2 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 29 Apr 2022
    Yes, I believe you can do all of what you're looking for without a UI. The alertmanager api has the ability to register receivers as well as to poll for alerts, silence them, etc: https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/blob/main/api/v2/openapi.yaml
  • Part I: EC2 with Prometheus
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2022
    #cloud-config # environment: ${environment} runcmd: # install AWS CLI, neeeded for downloading of configuration files - | apt-get update && apt-get install unzip -y curl -Lo awscli.zip https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-aarch64.zip unzip awscli.zip ./aws/install rm awscli.zip # install prometheus binary - | curl -Lo prometheus.tar.gz https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.33.1/prometheus-2.33.1.linux-arm64.tar.gz tar -xvf prometheus.tar.gz cp ./prometheus-2.33.1.linux-arm64/prometheus /usr/local/bin/prometheus rm -rf ./prometheus-2.33.1.linux-arm64 rm -rf prometheus.tar.gz # install alertmanager binary - | curl -Lo alertmanager.tar.gz https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/releases/download/v0.23.0/alertmanager-0.23.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz tar -xvf alertmanager.tar.gz mv ./alertmanager-0.23.0.linux-arm64/alertmanager /usr/local/bin/alertmanager rm -rf alertmanager-0.23.0.linux-arm64 rm alertmanager.tar.gz # vait for EBS volume - | while [ ! -b $(readlink -f /dev/nvme1n1) ]; do echo "waiting for device /dev/nvme1n1" sleep 5 done # format volume blkid $(readlink -f /dev/nvme1n1) || mkfs -t ext4 $(readlink -f /dev/nvme1n1) # create a mount mkdir -p /data if ! grep "/dev/nvme1n1" /etc/fstab; then echo "/dev/nvme1n1 /data ext4 defaults,discard 0 0" >> /etc/fstab fi # mount volume mount /data # enable and start systemd services - | systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable prepare-prometheus.service && systemctl start prepare-prometheus.service && sleep 10 systemctl enable prometheus.service && systemctl start prometheus.service systemctl enable alertmanager.service && systemctl start alertmanager.service write_files: - path: /usr/local/bin/prepare-prometheus permissions: '0744' content: | #!/bin/sh mkdir -p /etc/prometheus aws s3 cp s3://${s3_bucket}/prometheus.yaml /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yaml aws s3 cp s3://${s3_bucket}/alertmanager.yaml /etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yaml aws s3 cp s3://${s3_bucket}/prometheus.rules.yaml /etc/prometheus/prometheus.rules.yaml curl -X POST http://localhost:9090/-/reload || true - path: /etc/systemd/system/prepare-prometheus.service content: | [Unit] Description=Prepare prometheus / alertmanager configuration Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prepare-prometheus # please note data.mount in dependencies - path: /etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service content: | [Unit] Description=Prometheus Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target data.mount prepare-prometheus.service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus \ --config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yaml \ --storage.tsdb.path /data/ \ --web.enable-lifecycle \ --web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles \ --web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries \ --enable-feature=remote-write-receiver [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target - path: /etc/systemd/system/alertmanager.service content: | [Unit] Description=Alert Manager Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target data.mount prepare-prometheus.service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/alertmanager \ --config.file /etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yaml \ --storage.path=/data/ [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
  • It took almost a full day, but I finally got a decent homelab diagram :D Feedback is most welcome!
    27 projects | /r/homelab | 22 Aug 2021
    Prometheus)Alertmanager: https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager | https://prometheus.io/
  • Finally got a landing page built for my little lab, after much inspiration from this sub!
    9 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 May 2021
    At a high level, I use various Prometheus exporters, including node-exporter and some simple custom exporters, which can then be consumed by Grafana for dashboards, Alert Manager for sending PushOver notifications, and my own web apps for displaying custom metrics. Hope that helps :)
  • Architecting your Cloud Native Infrastructure
    14 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2021
    In any such scenarios, a tool like Prometheus can act as the time series database to collect all the metrics for you along with something like OpenTelemetry to expose metrics from the application and the various tools using inbuilt exporters, Alertmanager to send notifications and alerts to multiple channels, Grafana as the dashboard to visualize everything at one place and so on giving users a complete visibility on the infrastructure as a whole.

node_exporter

Posts with mentions or reviews of node_exporter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-29.
  • Prometheus Fundamentals (Lesson-01)
    2 projects | dev.to | 29 Dec 2023
    $ wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.7.0/node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  • List of your reverse proxied services
    29 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Dec 2023
    Node Exporter
  • Tool to monitor disk space
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 May 2023
    I use Grafana + Prometheus + Node Exporter.
  • Is there a dashboard of sorts that can keep track of my linux-based computers and VMs to that I can easily see if any of them have updates or are running low on storage and et cetera?
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 24 Mar 2023
  • Questions about Kubernetes
    7 projects | /r/sysadmin | 13 Mar 2023
    Kubernetes itself will not notify you, the way I've seen people do this, is to use something like kube-state-metrics or node_exporter, export that to Prometheus (or preferrably VictoriaMetrics because Prometheus is terrible IMO), and then setup alarms on that with alertmanager or equivalent, or just look at dashboards regularly with Grafana. Realistically I recommend only setting alerts on disk usage and application/database latency. CPU and memory utilization isn't a great metric to alert on a lot of the time.
  • multi line regex help
    2 projects | /r/golang | 21 Feb 2023
    A good example of hwmon parsing can be found in hwmon_linux.go.
  • Does anyone know of a guide for installing snmp_exporter on ASUS router running merlin firmware?
    2 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 22 Jan 2023
    The only issue is ASUS has weird kernel patches and you will need to use --no-collector.netdev.netlink to work around them.
  • Monitoring Linux instances with Prometheus andĀ Grafana
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023
    $ wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.0.1/node_exporter-1.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz Uncompress and rename the folder $ tar xvf node_exporter-1.0.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz $ mv node_exporter-1.0.1.linux-amd64 ne_files
  • My Rust journey and how to learn Rust
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2023
    Since I have a specific problem that needs to be solved, I need to implement a node_exporter to complete the transformation of the monitoring stack. So I learned Rust through the learning-by-doing mode.
  • AWS EC2 Auto Scaling, Target Tracking Policies and Prometheus Exporters
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jan 2023
    #!/bin/bash yum update -y # Install CWA yum install amazon-cloudwatch-agent -y # Install Nginx and configure the stub status module amazon-linux-extras install nginx1.12 -y aws ssm get-parameter --name {{ nginx_stub_status_config_parameter_path }} --region {{ region }} --output text --query Parameter.Value > {{ nginx_config_file_path }} # Add a user to run the exporters useradd --no-create-home metrics_exporter # Install Node Exporter wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.4.0/node_exporter-1.4.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz tar xzf node_exporter-1.4.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz cp node_exporter-1.4.0.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/bin/node_exporter rm -rf node_exporter-1.4.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz node_exporter-1.4.0.linux-amd64 # Create Node Exporter systemd service cat << 'EOF' > /etc/systemd/system/node-exporter.service [Unit] Description=Prometheus Node Exporter Service After=network.target [Service] User=metrics_exporter Group=metrics_exporter Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF # Install Nginx Exporter wget https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter/releases/download/v0.11.0/nginx-prometheus-exporter_0.11.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz tar xzf nginx-prometheus-exporter_0.11.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz cp nginx-prometheus-exporter /usr/local/bin/nginx-prometheus-exporter rm -rf nginx-prometheus-exporter_0.11.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz nginx-prometheus-exporter # Create Nginx Exporter systemd service cat << 'EOF' > /etc/systemd/system/nginx-prometheus-exporter.service [Unit] Description=Prometheus Nginx Exporter Service After=network.target [Service] User=metrics_exporter Group=metrics_exporter Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/nginx-prometheus-exporter -nginx.scrape-uri http://127.0.0.1:{{ nginx_stub_status_port }}/metrics -web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:9113 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF # Configure CWA aws ssm get-parameter --name {{ cwa_prometheus_parameter_path }} --region {{ region }} --with-decryption --output text --query Parameter.Value > /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/prometheus.yml /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/bin/amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl -a fetch-config -m ec2 -c ssm:"{{ cwa_settings_parameter_path }}" -s # Start everything up systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable nginx systemctl start nginx systemctl enable node-exporter systemctl start node-exporter systemctl enable nginx-prometheus-exporter systemctl start nginx-prometheus-exporter

What are some alternatives?

When comparing alertmanager and node_exporter you can also consider the following projects:

cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

process-exporter - Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Netdata - Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.

ping_exporter - Prometheus exporter for ICMP echo requests using https://github.com/digineo/go-ping

fortigate_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls

windows_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Windows machines

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

node-exporter-textfile-collector-scripts - Scripts for node-exporter's textfile collector

loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.

yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter - Prometheus exporter for AWS CloudWatch - Discovers services through AWS tags, gets CloudWatch metrics data and provides them as Prometheus metrics with AWS tags as labels

filestat_exporter - Prometheus exporter gathering metrics about file size, modification time and other stats