ArangoDB Exporter for Prometheus

This exporter exposes the statistics provided by a specific ArangoDB instance in a format compatible with prometheus.

Deprecation notice

This component has been deprecated.

Recent ArangoDB versions support exposing metrics directly into a Prometheus format. We recommend using that.

For more details on how to do that, go to github.com/arangodb/kube-arangodb/docs/design/exporter.md.

Usage

To use the ArangoDB Exporter, run the following:

arangodb-exporter \
    --arangodb.endpoint=http://<your-database-host>:8529 \
    --arangodb.jwtsecret=<your-jwt-secret> \
    --ssl.keyfile=<your-optional-ssl-keyfile>

This results in an ArangoDB Exporter exposing all statistics of the ArangoDB server (running at http://<your-database-host>:8529) at http://<your-host-ip>:9101/metrics.

Exporter modes

internal

Use internal metrics exporter mode for ArangoDB < 3.6.0

In this mode metrics are calculated on ArangoDB Exporter side

passthru

Expose ArangoDB metrics for ArangoDB >= 3.6.0

In this mode metrics provided by ArangoDB _admin/metrics are exposed on Exporter port.

Running in Docker

To run the ArangoDB Exporter in docker, use an image such as arangodb/arangodb-exporter:0.1.3.

Configuring Prometheus

There are several ways to configure Prometheus to fetch metrics from the ArangoDB Exporter.

Below you're find a sample Prometheus configuration file that can be used to fetch metrics from an ArangoDB exporter listening on localhost port 9101 (without TLS).

global:
  scrape_interval:     15s
scrape_configs:
- job_name: arangodb
  static_configs:
  - targets: ['localhost:9101']

For more info on configuring Prometheus go to its configuration documentation.

If you're using the Prometheus Operator in Kubernetes, you need to create an additional Service and a ServiceMonitor resource like this:

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: arangodb-exporters-service
  labels:
    app: arangodb-exporter
spec:
  selector:
    app: arangodb-exporter
  ports:
  - name: metrics
    port: 9101

---

apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: ServiceMonitor
metadata:
  name: arangodb-exporter
  namespace: monitoring
  labels:
    team: frontend
    prometheus: kube-prometheus
spec:
  namespaceSelector:
    matchNames:
    - default
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: arangodb-exporter
  endpoints:
  - port: metrics
    scheme: https
    tlsConfig:
      insecureSkipVerify: true

Note 1: that the typical deployment on the Prometheus operator is done in a namespace called monitoring. Make sure to match the namespace of the ServiceMonitor to match that.

Note 2: that the Prometheus custom resource has a field called serviceMonitorSelector. Make sure that the matchLabels selector in there matches the labels of your ServiceMonitor.

Building

To build this project, you need Go 1.12 or higher and Docker installed. Then run:

DOCKERNAMESPACE=<your docker hub account name> make