Prometheus Exporter for updown.io

Metrics

Metrics names are prefixed updown_.

Name	Type	Description
checks_enabled	Counter	Status of Check (enabled=1)
exporter_build_info	Counter	Exporter build info
metrics_response_times	Histogram	Histogram of a Check's response times

Image

ghcr.io/dazwilkin/updown-exporter:1c2465f6b11787378bef5e1e4247881933c6cb81

Sigstore

updown-exporter container images are being signed by Sigstore and may be verified:

cosign verify \
--key=./cosign.pub \
ghcr.io/dazwilkin/updown-exporter:1c2465f6b11787378bef5e1e4247881933c6cb81

NOTE cosign.pub may be downloaded here

To install cosign, e.g.:

go install github.com/sigstore/cosign/cmd/cosign@latest

API Key

The Exporter needs access to an updown API Key

export API_KEY="[YOUR-API-KEY]"

Go

export API_KEY="[YOUR-API-KEY]"

go run . \
--endpoint=0.0.0.0:8080 \
--path=/metrics

Container

API_KEY="[YOUR-API-KEY]"

IMAGE="ghcr.io/dazwilkin/updown-exporter:1c2465f6b11787378bef5e1e4247881933c6cb81"

podman run \
--interactive --tty --rm \
--publish=8080:8080 \
--env=API_KEY=${API_KEY} \
${IMAGE} \
  --endpoint=0.0.0.0:8080 \
  --path=/metrics

Then browse http://localhost:8080/metrics to view the metrics.

Prometheus

prometheus.yml:

global:
  scrape_interval: 1m
  evaluation_interval: 1m

scrape_configs:
  # updown Exporter
- job_name: "updown-exporter"
  static_configs:
  - targets:
    - "localhost:8080"

Docker

API_KEY="[YOUR-API-KEY]"

IMAGE="ghcr.io/dazwilkin/updown-exporter:1c2465f6b11787378bef5e1e4247881933c6cb81"

docker run \
--detach --tty --rm \
--name="updown-exporter" \
--env=API_KEY=${API_KEY} \
--publish=8080:8080/tcp \
${IMAGE} \
  --endpoint=0.0.0.0:8080 \
  --path=/metrics

docker run \
--detach --rm --tty \
--name="prometheus" \
--publish=9090:9090/tcp \
--volume=${PWD}/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml:ro \
docker.io/prom/prometheus:v2.36.2 \
--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
--web.enable-lifecycle

Then browse:

• Exporter
• Prometheus

Podman

API_KEY="[YOUR-API-KEY]"

IMAGE="ghcr.io/dazwilkin/updown-exporter:1c2465f6b11787378bef5e1e4247881933c6cb81"

POD="updown-exporter"

podman pod create \
--name=${POD} \
--publish=5555:8080/tcp \
--publish=9090:9090/tcp

podman run \
--interactive --tty --rm \
--pod=${POD} \
--name="updown-exporter" \
--env=API_KEY=${API_KEY} \
${IMAGE} \
  --endpoint=0.0.0.0:8080 \
  --path=/metrics

podman run \
--detach --rm --tty \
--pod=${POD} \
--name="prometheus" \
--volume=${PWD}/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml:ro \
docker.io/prom/prometheus:v2.36.2 \
--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
--web.enable-lifecycle

Then browse:

• Exporter
• Prometheus

Raspberry Pi

if [ "$(getconf LONG_BIT)" -eq 64 ]
then
  # 64-bit Raspian
  ARCH="GOARCH=arm64"
  TAG="arm64"
else
  # 32-bit Raspian
  ARCH="GOARCH=arm GOARM=7"
  TAG="arm32v7"
fi

podman build \
--build-arg=GOLANG_OPTIONS="CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux ${ARCH}" \
--build-arg=COMMIT=$(git rev-parse HEAD) \
--build-arg=VERSION=$(uname --kernel-release) \
--tag=ghcr.io/dazwilkin/updown-exporter:${TAG} \
--file=./Dockerfile \
.

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