godleon / mtr_exporter

mtr_exporter

mtr_exporter

simple exporter for mtr stats for prometheus.

Version v0.1.0 vs v0.2.0

• v0.1.0 runs the mtr command synchronously and provides the data as a 'snapshot' in time, thus you will need to configure the scrape timeout accordingly (scrape timeout >= cycles)
• v0.2.0 runs the mtr command asynchron in the background and provide the data in a more prometheus like way, also metrics were removed/added or renamed (see Shinzu#1)

Getting Started

To run it:

./mtr_exporter [flags]

Help on flags:

./mtr_exporter --help

Usage

In order to work you need to install the mtr package for your dirstribution eg Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install mtr-tiny

In the config file you can define mtr arguments you want to use and the hosts you want to trace against.

Then simply run the exporter with the config file. This file can be in the same directory(standard location with name mtr.yaml) or somewhere else in the filesystem.

./mtr_exporter -config.file mtr.yaml

if you want to run it as non root under linux you must add the cap_net_raw capability for the mtr binary

sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep /usr/bin/mtr

Building

make build