May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
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Node Exporter
To ensure that system-level metrics will be collected, Node Exporter must be installed in all three virtual machines. To log in to each virtual machine, use the commands that we explored in the previous sections:
- Inside the guest instance, drop to the root:
sudo -i
- Create a new system user:
useradd --system node_exporter
- Go into /tmp and download the Node Exporter archive:
cd /tmpcurl -sLO "https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v0.17.0/node_exporter-0.17.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
- Place every file in its correct location:
tar zxvf "node_exporter-0.17.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz" -C /usr/bin --strip-components=1 --wildcards */node_exporter
- Add a systemd unit file for the Node Exporter service:
install -m ...
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