May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
The Node Exporter is the most well-known Prometheus exporter, for good reason. It provides over 40 collectors for different areas of the OS, as well as a way of exposing local metrics for cron jobs and static information about the host. Like the rest of the Prometheus ecosystem, the Node Exporter comes with a sane default configuration and some smarts to identify what can be collected, so it's perfectly reasonable to run it without much tweaking.
Although this exporter was designed to be run as a non-privileged user, it does need to access kernel and process statistics, which aren't normally available when running inside a container. ...
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