haproxy_exporter vs systemd_exporter

haproxy_exporter

Simple server that scrapes HAProxy stats and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus consumption (by prometheus)

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systemd_exporter

Exporter for systemd unit metrics (by prometheus-community)

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haproxy_exporter		systemd_exporter
	Project
1	Mentions	5
599	Stars	256
-	Growth	5.5%
5.0	Activity	7.1
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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haproxy_exporter

Posts with mentions or reviews of haproxy_exporter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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1 project | /r/haproxy | 4 Feb 2021

systemd_exporter

Posts with mentions or reviews of systemd_exporter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.

Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023

Worth looking into prometheus. in basic form that'd be gathering metrics from https://github.com/prometheus-community/systemd_exporter on your hosts, and configure alerting in grafana or prometheus alertmanager to notify when a threshold is exceeded
Linux process monitoring solutions
3 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 30 Sep 2021

Before you get into process monitoring, you probably want to look at cgroup monitoring. Since most services are started by systemd units, you can use the systemd_exporter or cAdvisor to track process groups.
Anyone using Process Exporter? How is your prometheus yml file configure for it?
3 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 10 Sep 2021

If you want to monitor services, you might want to look at leveraging cgroup-based data with cAdvisor or the systemd_exporter.
Monitoring backend processes- systemd dashboard
4 projects | /r/sysadmin | 3 May 2021

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing haproxy_exporter and systemd_exporter you can also consider the following projects:

statsd_exporter - StatsD to Prometheus metrics exporter

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

snmp_exporter - SNMP Exporter for Prometheus

node_exporter - Exporter for machine metrics

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

redis_exporter - Prometheus Exporter for Redis Metrics. Supports Redis 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x

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.

kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

hfast - Secure HTTP-server focussed on convention over config