node_exporter VS net-test

Compare node_exporter vs net-test and see what are their differences.

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node_exporter net-test
78 1
10,132 39
2.7% -
8.9 0.0
3 days ago over 2 years ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.
  • 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 and 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

net-test

Posts with mentions or reviews of net-test. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-11.
  • Internet-monitoring – A Docker Stack which Monitors your home network
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2021
    Cool! It's so funny I just recently took an old bash script of mine which did something similar and have been upgrading it into a proper application which exports metrics to Prometheus and Grafana: https://github.com/Noah-Huppert/net-test

    I saw a comment below where some was rolling their eyes that you "complicated" stuff with Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker and how you could just use Bash scripts and crons. As I just upgraded my codebase from this more bare metal approach to this "more complex setup" I'd like to mention: there's no way you could do time series statistical analysis easily with "just a cron job and a bash script". Prometheus and Grafana are for more than just buzz words. Prometheus offers an advanced time series database which allows you to, at minimum, do more robust analysis using data techniques like Histograms. As for Grafana, it makes exploring data dead easy. Providing users with a Docker Compose setup is also something I did with my tool and the benefits are huge. It lets me distribute a setup which relies on multiple moving parts working smoothly together. Sure I could write a whole wiki on how you should setup Prometheus Grafana and my tool, or I could distribute the setup with a configuration as code tool. Ensuring that even if someone doesn't want to use Docker Compose they can at least read my configuration as code and see exactly what I did to setup my tool.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing node_exporter and net-test 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

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

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

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.