sonic_exporter

sonic_exporter

Prometheus exporter for the SONiC NOS.

The exporter acts as two exporters in one:

• Data plane: Exposes metrics based on the SONiC State Database
• Control plane: Implements node_exporter tuned to work well with SONiC.

Installation using sonic-package-manager

Installation using sonic-package-manager requires SONiC 202106 or later.

# Fetch the latest version
version=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kamelnetworks/sonic_exporter/releases | jq '.[0].name' -r)

sudo sonic-package-manager install \
  --from-repository "ghcr.io/kamelnetworks/sonic_exporter:${version}" \
  --enable

Configuration

Configuration is done using the SONiC click system.

Example:

admin@sonic:~$ sudo config sonic-exporter 
Usage: config sonic-exporter [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Configure Prometheus exporter for SONiC

Options:
  -h, -?, --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  port  Set the port that the exporter is listening to.
  vrf   Set the VRF that the exporter is listening inside.
admin@sonic:~$ sudo config sonic-exporter port 1234
admin@sonic:~$ sudo config sonic-exporter vrf VrfTest