Introduction

Promsat is intended to maintain a list of Prometheus targets based on server information pulled from Red Hat Satellite. A hosts list is pulled from the Satellite API and compared with a similar list pulled from the Prometheus API. If a host is known to Satellite but is not a defined target in Prometheus, it is added to a dynamically maintained targets file.

Installation

Install promsat

• Make sure you have Go installed and working
• Grab the Go code from the Github Repository
• Compile the code with something like go build and copy the resulting binary to somewhere sane. E.g. /usr/local/bin/promsat

Configure promsat

Promsat requires a YAML formatted configuration file. The location of the file is defined when the binary is executed:-

promsat --config /etc/prometheus/promsat.yml

The config file should look something like this:-

api_user: satellite_username
apt_password: satellite_password
baseurl_satellite: https://sat.domain.com
baseurl_prometheus: https://prometheus.domain.com
exporter_job: node_exporter
target_filename: /var/local/cache/prometheus/auto_targets.json
labels:
  env: auto
  notify: unixteam
autohosts_label: env
autohosts_port: 9100
exclude_hosts:
  - dontmonitorme
exclude_host_prefix:
  - excludeme

Where:

• api_user = Username for accessing the Satellite API
• api_password = Password for Satellite API user (A low privilege, read-only account)
• baseurl_satellite = The URL of the Satellite server hosting the API
• baseurl_prometheus = The URL of the Prometheus server
• exporter_job = Name of the reporter job associated with this auto-discovery process
• target_filename = Filename where auto-discovered targets should be written (This should be added to the Node Exporter file_sd_config targets list)
• labels = Labels to append to each auto-discovered host
• autohosts_label = A label that uniquely identifies auto-discovered hosts
• autohosts_port = Port number of the exporter associated with the auto-discovery process
• exclude_hosts = List of hostnames to exclude from the targets file
• exclude_host_prefix = As exclude_hosts but acts like a wildcard