Process Exporter Metrics

Prometheus Node Exporter is a popular way to collect system level metrics from operating systems, such as CPU / Disk / Network / Process statistics. Fluent Bit 2.2 onwards includes a process exporter plugin that builds off the Prometheus design to collect process level metrics without having to manage two separate processes or agents.

The Process Exporter Metrics plugin implements collecting of the various metrics available from the 3rd party implementation of Prometheus Process Exporter and these will be expanded over time as needed.

Important note: All metrics including those collected with this plugin flow through a separate pipeline from logs and current filters do not operate on top of metrics.

This plugin is only supported on Linux based operating systems as it uses the proc filesystem to access the relevant metrics.

macOS does not have the proc filesystem so this plugin will not work for it.

Configuration

Metrics Available

Threading

This input always runs in its own thread.

Getting Started

Simple Configuration File

In the following configuration file, the input plugin _process_exporter_metrics collects _metrics every 2 seconds and exposes them through our Prometheus Exporter output plugin on HTTP/TCP port 2021.

# Process Exporter Metrics + Prometheus Exporter
# -------------------------------------------
# The following example collect host metrics on Linux and expose
# them through a Prometheus HTTP end-point.
#
# After starting the service try it with:
#
# $ curl http://127.0.0.1:2021/metrics
#
[SERVICE]
    flush           1
    log_level       info

[INPUT]
    name            process_exporter_metrics
    tag             process_metrics
    scrape_interval 2

[OUTPUT]
    name            prometheus_exporter
    match           process_metrics
    host            0.0.0.0
    port            2021

You can see the metrics by using curl:

curl http://127.0.0.1:2021/metrics

Container to Collect Host Metrics

When deploying Fluent Bit in a container you will need to specify additional settings to ensure that Fluent Bit has access to the process details. The following docker command deploys Fluent Bit with a specific mount path for procfs and settings enabled to ensure that Fluent Bit can collect from the host. These are then exposed over port 2021.

docker run -ti -v /proc:/host/proc:ro \
               -p 2021:2021        \
               fluent/fluent-bit:2.2 \
               /fluent-bit/bin/fluent-bit \
                         -i process_exporter_metrics -p path.procfs=/host/proc  \
                         -o prometheus_exporter \
                         -f 1

Enhancement Requests

Development prioritises a subset of the available collectors in the the 3rd party implementation of Prometheus Process Exporter, to request others please open a Github issue by using the following template: - in_process_exporter_metrics