Prometheus exporters which can be useful in everyday work.

3 min readJun 10, 2021

Introduction

In this short post I will present list of Prometheus exporters, which can be useful when we creating monitoring. I will also provide links to Grafana dashboards that can be used to present the data

Basic information about system

Linux Servers:

Send basic information of Linux server

Exporter

prometheus/node_exporter

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by *NIX kernels, written in Go with pluggable metric…

github.com

Dashboard

Node Exporter Full dashboard for Grafana

Nearly all default values exported by Prometheus node exporter graphed. Only requires the default job_name: node, add…

grafana.com

Windows Servers:

Send basic information of Windows server

Exporter

prometheus-community/windows_exporter

A Prometheus exporter for Windows machines. See the linked documentation on each collector for more information on…

github.com

Dashboard

Windows Node (fixed for v0.13.0+) dashboard for Grafana

This is a copy of dashboard 2129. Starting at v0.13.0 the wmi_exporter was renamed to windows_exporter and all the…

grafana.com

Web Servers

Nginx Server:

Send information about NGINX or NGINX Plus

Exporter

nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter

NGINX Prometheus exporter makes it possible to monitor NGINX or NGINX Plus using Prometheus. NGINX exposes a handful of…

github.com

Dashboard

NGINX Ingress controller dashboard for Grafana

SOURCE: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/tree/master/deploy/grafana/dashboards Ingress-nginx supports a rich…

grafana.com

Apache Server:

Send apache information

Exporter

Lusitaniae/apache_exporter

Exports apache mod_status statistics via HTTP for Prometheus consumption. With working golang environment it can be…

github.com

Dashboard

Apache dashboard for Grafana

Data visualization & monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases

grafana.com

BlackBox Exporter:

Send information about HTTP, TCP, etc. It’s good for monitoring the life and death of Web services.

Exporter

prometheus/blackbox_exporter

The blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP. Download the most…

github.com

Dashboard

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter dashboard for Grafana

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter Overview

grafana.com

SSL info Exporter:

Send the information about the SSL certificates used for the web server. Good for monitoring the expiration date of SSL certificates.

Exporter

ribbybibby/ssl_exporter

Exports metrics for certificates collected from various sources: The metrics are labelled with fields from the…

github.com

Dashboard

SSL Certificate Monitor dashboard for Grafana

Hi, i'm Malte from OpenAdvice and i referred to this Dashboard in my Grafana Blog post…

grafana.com

Database Servers:

MySQL Server:

Send MySQL server information

Exporter

prometheus/mysqld_exporter

Prometheus exporter for MySQL server metrics. Supported versions: NOTE: Not all collection methods are supported on…

github.com

Dashboard

MySQL Overview dashboard for Grafana

Dashboard from Percona Monitoring and Management project.

grafana.com

PostgreSQL Server:

Send PostgreSQL server information

Exporter

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter

Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics. This package is available for Docker: # Start an example database…

github.com

Dashboard

Postgres Overview dashboard for Grafana

Dashboard allow to monitor: rows fetched/returned/inserted/updated/deleted per second total qps based on commits and…

grafana.com

REDIS:

Send Redis information

Exporter

oliver006/redis_exporter

Prometheus exporter for Redis metrics. Supports Redis 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x git clone…

github.com

Dashboard

Redis Dashboard for Prometheus Redis Exporter (helm stable/redis-ha) dashboard for Grafana

Redis Dashboard for Prometheus Redis Exporter 1.x, it works with helm stable/redis-ha exporter. If you missing redis…

grafana.com

Oracle Database:

Send Oracle Database information

Exporter

iamseth/oracledb_exporter

Table of Contents A Prometheus exporter for Oracle modeled after the MySQL exporter. I'm not a DBA or seasoned Go…

github.com

Dashboard

Oracledb dashboard for Grafana

Oracle dashboard monitors db status, active sessions, user commits, wait times and more.

grafana.com

Memcached:

Send Memcached information

Exporter

prometheus/memcached_exporter

A memcached exporter for Prometheus. The memcached exporter exports metrics from a memcached server for consumption by…

github.com

Dashboard

Prometheus memcached dashboard for Grafana

Dashboard for getting a complete overview of your memcached servers using prometheus and memcached_exporter. % Hit…

grafana.com

Elasticsearch:

Send Elasticsearch information

Exporter

prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter

Prometheus exporter for various metrics about ElasticSearch, written in Go. For pre-built binaries please take a look…

github.com

Dashboard

ElasticSearch dashboard for Grafana

ElasticSearch cluster stats. Revision 1 of this dashboard is the same as the Infinity Dashboard Revision 4…

grafana.com

Prometheus exporters which can be useful in everyday work.

Introduction

Basic information about system

Linux Servers:

prometheus/node_exporter

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by *NIX kernels, written in Go with pluggable metric…

Node Exporter Full dashboard for Grafana

Nearly all default values exported by Prometheus node exporter graphed. Only requires the default job_name: node, add…

Windows Servers:

prometheus-community/windows_exporter

A Prometheus exporter for Windows machines. See the linked documentation on each collector for more information on…

Windows Node (fixed for v0.13.0+) dashboard for Grafana

This is a copy of dashboard 2129. Starting at v0.13.0 the wmi_exporter was renamed to windows_exporter and all the…

Web Servers

Nginx Server:

nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter

NGINX Prometheus exporter makes it possible to monitor NGINX or NGINX Plus using Prometheus. NGINX exposes a handful of…

NGINX Ingress controller dashboard for Grafana

SOURCE: https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/tree/master/deploy/grafana/dashboards Ingress-nginx supports a rich…

Apache Server:

Lusitaniae/apache_exporter

Exports apache mod_status statistics via HTTP for Prometheus consumption. With working golang environment it can be…

Apache dashboard for Grafana

Data visualization & monitoring with support for Graphite, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch and many more databases

BlackBox Exporter:

prometheus/blackbox_exporter

The blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP. Download the most…

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter dashboard for Grafana

Prometheus Blackbox Exporter Overview

SSL info Exporter:

ribbybibby/ssl_exporter

Exports metrics for certificates collected from various sources: The metrics are labelled with fields from the…

SSL Certificate Monitor dashboard for Grafana

Hi, i'm Malte from OpenAdvice and i referred to this Dashboard in my Grafana Blog post…

Database Servers:

MySQL Server:

prometheus/mysqld_exporter

Prometheus exporter for MySQL server metrics. Supported versions: NOTE: Not all collection methods are supported on…

MySQL Overview dashboard for Grafana

Dashboard from Percona Monitoring and Management project.

PostgreSQL Server:

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter

Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics. This package is available for Docker: # Start an example database…

Postgres Overview dashboard for Grafana

Dashboard allow to monitor: rows fetched/returned/inserted/updated/deleted per second total qps based on commits and…

REDIS:

oliver006/redis_exporter

Prometheus exporter for Redis metrics. Supports Redis 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x git clone…

Redis Dashboard for Prometheus Redis Exporter (helm stable/redis-ha) dashboard for Grafana

Redis Dashboard for Prometheus Redis Exporter 1.x, it works with helm stable/redis-ha exporter. If you missing redis…

Oracle Database:

iamseth/oracledb_exporter

Table of Contents A Prometheus exporter for Oracle modeled after the MySQL exporter. I'm not a DBA or seasoned Go…

Oracledb dashboard for Grafana

Oracle dashboard monitors db status, active sessions, user commits, wait times and more.

Memcached:

prometheus/memcached_exporter

A memcached exporter for Prometheus. The memcached exporter exports metrics from a memcached server for consumption by…

Prometheus memcached dashboard for Grafana

Dashboard for getting a complete overview of your memcached servers using prometheus and memcached_exporter. % Hit…

Elasticsearch:

prometheus-community/elasticsearch_exporter

Prometheus exporter for various metrics about ElasticSearch, written in Go. For pre-built binaries please take a look…

ElasticSearch dashboard for Grafana

ElasticSearch cluster stats. Revision 1 of this dashboard is the same as the Infinity Dashboard Revision 4…

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