node_exporter VS alertmanager

Compare node_exporter vs alertmanager and see what are their differences.

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node_exporter alertmanager
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10,231 6,254
2.5% 1.3%
8.9 9.2
3 days ago 7 days ago
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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.

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).
  • Alertmanager with SNS Topic
    1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 5 Oct 2022
    I found this other example below from this repo https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/issues/2559, but it is neither working.
  • 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
  • Customize Pushovert alerts ?
    1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 24 Mar 2022
    I found it, unfortunately it doesn't help.
  • 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
  • Prometheus trigger script on alert
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 21 Oct 2021
  • Is this a terrible way of getting timezone awareness into my Prometheus alerts?
    1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 5 Oct 2021
    Prometheus recently added native support for time ranges in the alerting config https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/issues/876
  • 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/

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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.

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

loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.

Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs

synology-notifications - Synology notifications service

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

NPushOver - Full fledged, async, .Net Pushover client

fortigate_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls

rook - Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes

windows_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Windows machines

velero - Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes