Node Exporter
Overview
This installation happens on the
dsb-node-01
.
According to Prometheus' Website, Node Exporter is an essential tool for monitoring the hardware and OS-level metrics of your Linux systems. It is part of the Prometheus ecosystem and is widely used to gather metrics such as CPU usage, memory usage, disk I/O, and more.
Installation Steps
- Create Necessary Directories
First, navigate to your apps
directory and create a new directory for Node Exporter:
cd ~/apps
mkdir node-exporter
- Create Docker Compose File
Navigate to the node-exporter
directory and create a docker-compose.yml
file:
cd ~/apps/node-exporter
touch docker-compose.yml
- Configure Docker Compose File
Edit the docker-compose.yml
file and add the following configuration:
version: '3.8'
services:
node-exporter:
image: quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter:latest
container_name: node-exporter
restart: unless-stopped
network_mode: "host"
pid: "host"
volumes:
- /proc:/host/proc:ro
- /sys:/host/sys:ro
- /:/rootfs:ro
command:
- '--path.procfs=/host/proc'
- '--path.sysfs=/host/sys'
- '--collector.filesystem.ignored-mount-points="^/(sys|proc|dev|host|etc)($$|/)"'
network_mode: host
- Deploy Node Exporter
Finally, use Docker Compose to deploy Node Exporter:
docker-compose up -d