What is Apache Exporter? Apache Exporter is a Prometheus exporter for Apache metrics that exports Apache server status reports generated by mod_status with the URL of http://127.0.0.1/server-status/?auto.
In this article I’ll show how create Apache server status page, how to build Apache Exporter with go get and how to configure it using a systemd service manager on Ubuntu and CentOS. (more…)
Sometimes you may want to delete some metrics from Prometheus if those metrics are unwanted or you just need to free up some disk space.
Time series in Prometheus can be deleted over administrative HTTP API only (disabled by default).
To enabled it, pass --web.enable-admin-api flag to Prometheus through start-up script or docker-compose file, depending on installation method. (more…)
What is Node Exporter? Node Exporter is a Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics with pluggable metric collectors.
It allows to measure various machine resources such as memory, disk and CPU utilization.
In this article I’ll show how to install and configure Node Exporter on Ubuntu and CentOS using a systemd service manager. (more…)
What is Prometheus? Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting software written in Go.
It collects metrics from configured targets and stores them in a local time series database.
Prometheus can run rules over collected data to either aggregate and record new time series from existing data or generate alerts.
To visualize the collected data Prometheus can be integrated with Grafana.
In the following article i will show how to install Prometheus using Docker on Ubuntu and CentOS. (more…)