CDIST-TYPE__PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER(7)

✨ cdist-type__prometheus_exporter ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the cdist manual page for cdist-type__prometheus_exporter (section 7, we're fancy like that) and it's literally about making your servers spill their little metrics secrets to Prometheus 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cdist-type__prometheus_exporter — install some Prometheus exporters, no cap 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what this type does is install and configure some exporters so your Prometheus monitoring setup (that's https://prometheus.io/ btw, go look at it, it's iconic) can actually see what's going on. 👑

Here's the tea: this type creates a daemontools-compatible service directory right under /service/$__object_id. Which means… daemontools (or something compatible with it) has to already be installed, okay? And specifically, the command svc must be executable — like, non-negotiable. If it's not, this whole thing is giving nothing. 💀

Also!! This type installs and builds the latest version straight from git, using go get. So you need a recent version of golang hanging around, plus build tools (make, g++, etc.). Yes bestie, actual compiler energy. 🔥

Currently supported exporters, in a cute little list:

• node
• blackbox
• ceph

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💖 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 💖

None. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. You're free, you're unburdened, it's giving main character with no homework. 🫶

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✨ OPTIONAL PARAMETERS ✨

• exporter — which exporter you want installed and configured. Default is $__object_id (she's self-referential like that 🙈). Currently supported: node, blackbox, ceph.

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🎀 BOOLEAN PARAMETERS 🎀

• add-consul-service — adds this exporter as a Consul service so you get automatic service discovery. Set it and forget it, automatic bestie behaviour. 🌈

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

okay here's the whole vibe, verbatim, don't @ me:

__daemontools
__golang_from_vendor --version 1.9  # required for prometheus and many exporters

require="__daemontools __golang_from_vendor" __prometheus_exporter node

see how __golang_from_vendor --version 1.9 is marked as required for prometheus and many exporters? yeah. heed that. 📌

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• cdist-type__daemontools(7)
• cdist-type__golang_from_vendor(7)
• cdist-type__prometheus_server(7)
• Prometheus documentation: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/

go read them, iykyk 🧚

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Kamila Součková <kamila--@--ksp.sk> — absolute legend, we stan 🫶

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👑 COPYING 👑

Copyright (C) 2017 Kamila Součková. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. fr fr, that's the license, respect it. 💅

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

ungleich GmbH 2021

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 202 (the footer got its little number cut off mid-sentence, but that's literally what it says 😭), and it came to you courtesy of the cdist crew. mwah, go monitor something 💖✨🎀