monit_exporter

Index

• About
  • Features
  • Support
  • Dependencies
• Setup
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Update
• Usage
• License
• Credits
• Appendix

About

monit_exporter periodically scrapes the monit status and provides its data via HTTP to Prometheus.

Features

Support

Dependencies

This application is written in Go and has the following dependencies:

• client_golang
• logrus
• viper
• charset

Setup

Requirements

This application has the following build requirements:

• Git
• Go

Installation

To build the application from source, simply run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/liv-io/monit_exporter.git
cd monit_exporter
go build

Update

To rebuild the application with the latest Go release, execute the following commands:

export GO_VERSION="1.21.3"
cd ~
curl --location https://go.dev/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz --output ~/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzvf ~/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/src/go
sudo mv ~/go /usr/local/src
echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/src/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/go.sh
source /etc/profile.d/go.sh

git clone https://github.com/liv-io/monit_exporter.git
cd ./monit_exporter/
rm -f go\.mod  go\.sum
sed -i 's@go-version: .*@go-version: ${GO_VERSION}@g' .github/workflows/release.yml
go mod init github.com/liv-io/monit_exporter
go mod tidy

Usage

The application will load the config.toml file located in the same directory if present. Use the -conf flag to override the default configuration file name and location.

To run the application, simply execute the Go binary.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Type	Default
listen_address	address and port to bind	String	localhost:9388
metrics_path	relative path to expose metrics	String	/metrics
ignore_ssl	whether of not to ignore ssl errors	Boolean	false
monit_scrape_uri	uri to get monit status	String	http://localhost:2812/_status?format=xml&level=full
monit_user	user for monit basic auth, if needed	String	none
monit_password	password for monit status, if needed	String	none

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

See LICENSE file for more information.

Contact

Project: monit_exporter

Credits

Acknowledgements:

• commercetools
• delucks