Hybrid Cloud for Architects

Setting up node exporter

This step is optional, but will give you some insight on the concept of exporters. Here, we will install a node exporter, which will help Prometheus scrape through the current node it is running on.

The steps are similar to that of installing the Prometheus system:

1. Download
2. Create directories and users
3. Startup script

For the sake of brevity, we will simply see the following commands: 

cd ~ wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v0.15.2/node_exporter-0.15.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Once the download is complete, execute the following commands:

tar -xvzf node_exporter-0.15.2.linux-amd64sudo sudo useradd node_exportersudo cp node_exporter-0.15.2.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/binsudo chown ...