container-node_exporter-textfiles

NOTICE The repository and image have been renamed on 18.02.2022! For more information click this spoiler

The container images name has been changed from `galexrt/node-exporter-smartmon` to **`galexrt/node-exporter-textfiles`**.
E.g., the image on quay.io is now available at `quay.io/galexrt/node-exporter-smartmon`.

The repository name has been changed from `container-node_exporter-smartmon` to **`container-node_exporter-textfiles`**.

This has been done as the image in this repository is not just for running the `smartmon` textfile collector script(s) anymore.

Container Image for easily running textfile exporter scripts from the Prometheus Community to be collected by the prometheus/node_exporter.

Container Image available from:

• Quay.io
• GHCR.io

Container Image Tags:

• main - Latest build of the main branch.
• vYYYYmmdd-HHMMSS-NNN - Latest build of the application with date of the build.

Credits

This docker image contains the prometheus-community/node-exporter-textfile-collector-scripts repository, so that any script can be easily used with / from this Docker image.

Usage

This Docker image needs to be run in privileged mode for most of the scripts in the prometheus-community/node-exporter-textfile-collector-scripts repository, e.g., for smartmon.sh it is needed to be able to collect the SMART values.

The entrypoint script is putting the output into the directory /var/lib/node_exporter, by default filename named after which script is running.

Variables

Name	Default	Description
SCRIPT	smartmon.sh	Which of the node_exporter textfile collector scripts to run.
OUTPUT_FILENAME	smartmon	Name of the output file (file ending must not be added .prom).
INTERVAL	300	Interval at which to run the script at.

Any flags / args given to the container are passed to the SCRIPT that will be executed.

Grafana Dashboard

A Grafana dashboard for viewing smartmon metrics can be found in the grafana/ directory and Grafana.com - Smartmon Textfile Dashboard by Galexrt.

Required node_exporter Configuration

See node_exporter Configuration Prerequisites.

Kubernetes

Following deployments / installation methods are available:

• node-exporter-textfiles Helm Chart (Recommended)
• kubernetes/ directory contains an example DaemonSet running the smartmon.sh and nvme_metrics.sh textfile scripts.