prometheus/node_exporter
Exporter for machine metrics
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Where it stands
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No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 106 days ago, with 402 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 19% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Exports hardware and OS metrics from *NIX kernels for Prometheus monitoring using pluggable collectors.
- Provides extensive, customizable system metrics collection with support for many kernel and hardware features across multiple UNIX-like OSes.
- Use for monitoring CPU, memory, disk, and network statistics on Linux servers to optimize resource usage.
- Use for collecting detailed filesystem and hardware sensor data in containerized environments with host namespace access.
- Use for integrating system-level metrics into Prometheus for alerting and capacity planning in large-scale infrastructure.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by *NIX kernels, written in Go with pluggable metric collectors.
The Windows exporter is recommended for Windows users. To expose NVIDIA GPU metrics, prometheus-dcgm can be used.
If you are new to Prometheus and
node_exporterthere is a simple step-by-step guide.The
node_exporterlistens on HTTP port 9100 by default. See the--helpoutput for more options.For automated installs with Ansible, there is the Prometheus Community role.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
2.7K+34
Open issues
328+8
Compared with peers in Monitoring
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruvnet/RuView | 102.4K | +1.4K | 55 | 6 days ago |
| openobserve/openobserve | 22.8K | +235 | 40 | today |
| cilium/cilium | 25.8K | +52 | 65 | 3 days ago |
| grafana/loki | 29.1K | +42 | 65 | 1 day ago |
| lowlighter/metrics | 17.3K | — | 45 | — |
| prometheus/node_exporter | 13.9K | — | 59 | 106 days ago |
| Category median | 25.8K | +144 | 55 | — |
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