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Using node_exporter

Using node_exporter - Prometheus Tutorial

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Using node_exporter

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It's all about metrics. Let's start monitoring a remote system using NodeExporter. In this lab, we'll install the NodeExporter to our second virtual machine. And as a note, it listens on port 9100 by default. So the Prometheus server is listening on 9090, the node exporter on 9100. Then we'll modify the Prometheus.yaml configuration file on the main system to include our remote system in its scrapes. After that, we'll query the remote system from the Prometheus web UI. And there is an automated script for Ubuntu and Debian, and that's in the lab documents. Inside lab-04, you'll see node-exporter.sh. It should work on most other system D-based Linux systems, but again, I'm recommending Ubuntu for these labs, or you could install the node exporter from package manager. If you don't want to use the script or if it doesn't work for you, just keep in mind as with the installation of Prometheus, you'll get an older version. Generally, you're going to get older versions of the software when…

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