Aggregate Exporter

Aggregates many exporters to a single page to reduce number of exposed endpoints.

NOTE

This doesn't actually aggregate metrics (as in it doesn't sum them up etc.) and is possibly quite badly named. As a result each target has it's metrics tagged with a label so that they are not duplicated in the aggregate view. This can be modified

Options

  -server.bind (SERVER_BIND) string
    	Bind the HTTP server to this address e.g. 127.0.0.1:8080 or just :8080 (default ":8080"). For unix socket use unix:/path/to/file.sock
    	
  -targets (TARGETS) string
    	comma separated list of targets e.g. http://localhost:8081/metrics,http://localhost:8082/metrics or url1=http://localhost:8081/metrics,url2=http://localhost:8082/metrics for custom label values
    	
  -targets.label (TARGETS_LABEL) bool
    	Add a label to metrics to show their origin target (default true)
    	
  -targets.label.name (TARGETS_LABEL_NAME) string
    	Label name to use if a target name label is appended to metrics (default "ae_source")
    	
  -targets.scrape.timeout (TARGETS_SCRAPE_TIMEOUT) int
    	If a target metrics pages does not responde with this many miliseconds then timeout (default 1000)

  -targets.dynamic.registration (TARGETS_DYNAMIC_REGISTRATION) bool
        Enabled dynamic targets registration/deregistration using /register and /unregister endpoints (default false)
                
  -targets.cache.path
        Path to file used as cache of targets usable in case of application restart with dynamic targets registered (default empty)

  -verbose (VERBOSE)
    	Log more information
    	
  -version (VERSION)
    	Show version and exit

How to build it

Build using the go binary

If you have go (1.14) installed on your machine, you can simply do:

cd cmd/
go build -o prometheus-aggregate-exporter

Or you can use the provided Makefile:

make build

Build into a Docker image

If you have Docker installed (or any runtime understanding the Dockerfile format), you can simply invoke:

make docker-build

And you'll have Docker compile the binary and make it available under the image named warmans/aggregate-exporter:latest

Alternatively the image is available though docker-hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/warmans/prometheus-aggregate-exporter

Manual Testing

You can run the exporter against some static fixture files by running the following make targets in separate terminals.

$ make test.run-fixture-server
$ make test.run

then to view the /metrics page:

$ make test.scrape

Example Usage

./bin/prometheus-aggregate-exporter \
	-targets="http://localhost:3000/histogram.txt,http://localhost:3000/histogram-2.txt" \
	-server.bind=":8080"

or using environment variables instead of flags:

TARGETS="http://localhost:3000/histogram.txt,http://localhost:3000/histogram-2.txt" \
SERVER_BIND=":8080" \
./bin/prometheus-aggregate-exporter 

or with docker

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 -e TARGETS="http://localhost:3000/metrics" warmans/aggregate-exporter:latest

Custom labelling

By default, the labels values that will end up in your metrics will be equals to the target url; for example:

 http_requests_total{method="post",code="200",ae_source="http://localhost:3000/histogram.txt"} 1027 101 

But you can customize those labels; for example if you invoke the tool with:

 bin/prometheus-aggregate-exporter -targets="histo1=http://localhost:3000/histogram.txt,histo2=http://localhost:3000/histogram-2.txt" -server.bind=":8080" -targets.label.name="instance"

the metrics will rather look like:

http_requests_total{method="post",code="200",instance="histo1"} 1027 1395066363000

Target URL containing a = character

In case one of your target urls contains a = character (for instance consul agent's exporter is available at /v1/agent/metrics?format=prometheus), you must use the custom labelling notation:

 bin/prometheus-aggregate-exporter -targets="consul=http://localhost:8500/v1/agent/metrics?format=prometheus"

Dynamic registration

If targets.dynamic.registration is set to true additional HTTP GET endpoints are available /register and /unregister. Those can be used for example for dynamic exporter discovery in multi replica Kubernetes environment when exact adress of exporter is not known at start.

Both support query parameters:

• name - name of registered exporter (same as name usable in targets)
• address - address of exporter without schema (ex. localhost:9090/metrics)
• schema - exporter schema (default http)

Example usage:

• register exporter: localhost:8080/register?name=someExporter&address=localhost:3000/metrics
• unregister exporter: localhost:8080/unregister?name=xxx&address=localhost:3000