Mini Node Exporter

ℹ️ About The Project

Mini Node Exporter is the simplest form of the famous prometheus/node_exporter. It is basically a type of monitoring stack and an exporter for hardware and OS metrics that is exposed by the prom-client. The express, prometheus & grafana servers are containerized using Docker & the whole monitoring stack is orchestrated using Docker Compose.

🛠️ Built With

Following technologies and libraries are used for the development of this project.

• Express.js
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Shell/CLI

📌 Getting Started

To setup the project locally follow the steps below

💻 Prerequisites

• Node.js
• Docker
• Docker Compose

🤖 Running the project.

To set this up in the local repository:

1. Fork and clone the project to your local system
2. Copy the commands below:

docker-compose up -d --build mini-node-exporter
docker-compose up -d --build prometheus
docker-compose up -d --build grafana

3. Now, there will be three processes running on your system i.e. mini-node-exporter, prometheus, grafana. mini-node-exporter will be running at 0.0.0.0:23333 whereas prometheus will be running at 0.0.0.0:9090 and grafana at 0.0.0.0:3000.

4. The mini-node-exporter application will be having the endpoints as follows:

• /info/uptime - Displays the Uptime of the server
• /info/load - Displays the average load of the system in 1m, 5m and 15m in the form of a JSON.
• /metrics is the endpoint which exposes two gauge metrics i.e node_load & node_uptime

5. To fetch the metrics, open your terminal & run curl -GET 0.0.0.0:23333/metrics. This will return all the default as well as custom metrics.
6. Open 0.0.0.0:9090/graph to view the Prometheus dashboard.
7. To view the grafana dashboard, open 0.0.0.0:3000
8. A valid data source that goes by the name of Prometheus is already configured.
9. Now, plot a graph on the Grafana dashboard by the metrics scraped from Prometheus i.e.

• Follow the standard way of adding a new Grafana graph.
• Click the graph title, then click "Edit".
• Under the "Metrics" tab, select your Prometheus data source (bottom right). Example mertics: node_uptime, node_load_1m, node_load_5m & node_load_15m
• Enter any Prometheus expression into the "Query" field, while using the "Metric" field to lookup metrics via autocompletion.
• To format the legend names of time series, use the "Legend format" input. For example, to show only the method and status labels of a returned query result, separated by a dash, you could use the legend format string {{method}} - {{status}}.
• Tune other graph settings until you have a working graph.

📉 Relevant Screenshots:

1. Prometheus up & running

2. Adding Metrics In Grafana

3. Graph of node_uptime in Grafana dashboard

4. Graph of average load at 1m

5. Graph of average load at 5m

6. Graph of average load at 15m