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Prometheus ocserv exporter

This exporter allows to expose statistics from ocserv in Prometheus format. It simply parses the output of occtl tool to gather VPN server and user statistics.

Usage

Installation

Binaries can be download from the Github releases page.

Running

Start ocserv-exporter as a daemon or from CLI on the same host running ocserv (use-occtl = true must be set in ocserv configuration):

$ ./ocserv-exporter
$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8000/metrics
occtl_status_scrape_error_total 0
occtl_users_scrape_error_total 0
vpn_active_sessions 29
vpn_authentication_failures 32
vpn_average_auth_time_seconds 0
vpn_average_session_time_seconds 9960
vpn_closed_error_sessions 0
vpn_handled_sessions 589
vpn_ips_banned 0
vpn_max_auth_time_seconds 46
vpn_max_session_time_seconds 43200
vpn_rx_bytes 2.4823e+07
vpn_sessions_handled 139
vpn_timed_out_idle_sessions 0
vpn_timed_out_sessions 0
vpn_total_authentication_failures 171
vpn_tx_bytes 2.84913e+08
vpn_user_rx_bytes{device="vpns0",mtu="1434",remote_ip="203.0.113.0",username="j.doe",vpn_ipv4="10.0.0.1",vpn_ipv6=""} 962053
vpn_user_rx_bytes{device="vpns1",mtu="1434",remote_ip="203.0.113.1",username="a.bob",vpn_ipv4="10.0.0.2",vpn_ipv6=""} 532733
vpn_user_tx_bytes{device="vpns0",mtu="1434",remote_ip="203.0.113.0",username="j.doe",vpn_ipv4="10.0.0.1",vpn_ipv6=""} 3.474418e+06
vpn_user_tx_bytes{device="vpns1",mtu="1434",remote_ip="203.0.113.1",username="a.bob",vpn_ipv4="10.0.0.2",vpn_ipv6=""} 200146

Command line flags

Name Description
interval Delay between occtl scrape (default 30s)
listen Prometheus HTTP listen IP and port (default "127.0.01:8000")

Prometheus Configuration

Example config:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'ocserv-exporter'
    scrape_interval: 30s
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - 127.0.0.1:8000  # The ocserv exporter's real ip:port
    metrics_path: /metrics

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Before starting work on significant changes, please create an issue first.

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