node_exporter
Exporter for machine metrics (by prometheus)
systemd_exporter
Exporter for systemd unit metrics (by prometheus-community)
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| node_exporter | systemd_exporter | |
|---|---|---|
| 78 | 5 | |
| 10,281 | 256 | |
| 3.0% | 5.5% | |
| 8.9 | 7.1 | |
| 3 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Prometheus Fundamentals (Lesson-01)
$ 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
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List of your reverse proxied services
Node Exporter
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Best way to monitor disk space, RAM in remote servers and get alerts when full?
The Prometheus node_exporter can provide this information, doesn't require root. You could run it as a systemd user unit if you don't have root.
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Best Course/Learning Path for mastering Prometheus and Grafana
I personally find it best to learn through experimentation. Start with reading a bit about Prometheus and Grafana through their docs, and then familiarise yourself with setting up a local Prometheus + Grafana instance either locally or with docker using docker-compose, along with something to generate /metrics endpoint for Prometheus to scrape from such as a custom Prometheus exporter in Python or using Node Exporter.
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Linux Traffic Monitoring
Your best bet might be to fork node_exporter to get you more verbose socket stats: https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/blob/master/collector/sockstat_linux.go
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Tool to monitor disk space
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?
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Would SNMP present less of a load than SSH to get interface metrics from older cisco 3K series switches?
Crazy idea, can't NX devices run Docker? I wonder if the node_exporter would work.
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Questions about Kubernetes
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.
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How to log system usage: RAM, CPU, over a long time to detect which component is slowing down?
You may setup node exporter and collect metrics with prometheus for example. Its not quite "simple" way, but still you may find it useful.
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.
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Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you
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
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Linux process monitoring solutions
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.
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Anyone using Process Exporter? How is your prometheus yml file configure for it?
If you want to monitor services, you might want to look at leveraging cgroup-based data with cAdvisor or the systemd_exporter.
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Monitoring backend processes- systemd dashboard
systemd_exporer
What are some alternatives?
When comparing node_exporter and systemd_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
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
haproxy_exporter - Simple server that scrapes HAProxy stats and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus consumption
ping_exporter - Prometheus exporter for ICMP echo requests using https://github.com/digineo/go-ping
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.
fortigate_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
windows_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Windows machines
kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
node_exporter vs cadvisor
systemd_exporter vs process-exporter
node_exporter vs process-exporter
systemd_exporter vs cadvisor
node_exporter vs Netdata
systemd_exporter vs haproxy_exporter
node_exporter vs ping_exporter
systemd_exporter vs Grafana
node_exporter vs fortigate_exporter
systemd_exporter vs prometheus
node_exporter vs windows_exporter
systemd_exporter vs kube-state-metrics