node_exporter
Exporter for machine metrics (by prometheus)
process-exporter
Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes (by ncabatoff)
| node_exporter | process-exporter | |
|---|---|---|
| 78 | 6 | |
| 10,374 | 1,586 | |
| 2.3% | - | |
| 8.9 | 5.4 | |
| 8 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
process-exporter
Posts with mentions or reviews of process-exporter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
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Looking for an open source monitoring solution that will capture specific process info
OP is specifically asking about MacOS, but for *nix use-cases, there's the process_exporter that works to expose process level statistics. https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter
- Monitor the highest CPU consuming process in prometheus
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Linux process monitoring solutions
However, the process_exporter is useful for some situations where software has complex subprocess management and you want to track based on the cmdline running. For example all of the various PostgreSQL worker processes.
- Anyone using Process Exporter? How is your prometheus yml file configure for it?
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Anyone using Process Exporter?
yes. The config options are different though. Just see the README https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter
What are some alternatives?
When comparing node_exporter and process-exporter you can also consider the following projects:
cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
systemd_exporter - Exporter for systemd unit metrics
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
ping_exporter - Prometheus exporter for ICMP echo requests using https://github.com/digineo/go-ping
procfs - procfs provides functions to retrieve system, kernel and process metrics from the pseudo-filesystem proc.
fortigate_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls
statsd_exporter - StatsD to Prometheus metrics exporter
windows_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Windows machines
mongodb_exporter - A Prometheus exporter for MongoDB including sharding, replication and storage engines
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
redis_exporter - Prometheus Exporter for ValKey & Redis Metrics. Supports ValKey and Redis 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x
node_exporter vs cadvisor
process-exporter vs systemd_exporter
node_exporter vs Netdata
process-exporter vs cadvisor
node_exporter vs ping_exporter
process-exporter vs procfs
node_exporter vs fortigate_exporter
process-exporter vs statsd_exporter
node_exporter vs windows_exporter
process-exporter vs mongodb_exporter
node_exporter vs prometheus
process-exporter vs redis_exporter