bitcoin Prometheus Exporter

bitcoin Prometheus exporter makes it possible to monitor bitcoin node using Prometheus.

Overview

Bitcoin Prometheus exporter fetches the metrics the rpc api of the node, converts the metrics into appropriate Prometheus metrics types and finally exposes them via an HTTP server to be collected by Prometheus.

Getting Started

In this section, we show how to quickly run bitcoin Prometheus Exporter for bitcoin.

Prerequisites

We assume that you have already installed Prometheus and bitcoin. Additionally, you need to configure Prometheus to scrape metrics from the server with the exporter. Note that the default scrape port of the exporter is 9113 and the default metrics path -- /metrics.

Usage

Command-line Arguments

Usage of ./bitcoin-prometheus-exporter:
  -namepsace string
        The namespace or prefix to use in the exported metrics. The default value can be overwritten by NAMESPACE environment variable.") (default: bitcoind)
  -web.telemetry-path string
        A path under which to expose metrics. The default value can be overwritten by TELEMETRY_PATH environment variable. (default "/metrics")
  -web.listen-address string
        An address to listen on for web interface and telemetry. The default value can be overwritten by LISTEN_ADDRESS environment variable. (default ":9113")
  -rpc.host string
        Bitcoin node RPC host. The default value can be overwritten by RPC_HOST environment variable.") (default: localhost:8332)
  -rpc.user string
        Bitcoin node RPC username. The default value can be overwritten by RPC_USER environment variable.")
  -rpc.pass string
        Bitcoin node RPC password. The default value can be overwritten by RPC_PASS environment variable.")
  -rpc.post-mode bool
        If the RPC requests should be only in post mode. The default value can be overwritten by RPC_POST_MODE environment variable.") (default: true)
  -rpc.disable-tls bool
        Disable TLS when connecting to the RPC api. The default value can be overwritten by RPC_DISABLE_TLS environment variable.") (default: true)

Exported Metrics

• Connect to the /metrics page of the running exporter to see the complete list of metrics along with their descriptions.

Troubleshooting

The exporter logs errors to the standard output. When using Docker, if the exporter doesn’t work as expected, check its logs using docker logs command.

Releases

For each release, we publish the corresponding Docker image at platanus/bitcoin-prometheus-exporter DockerHub repo and the binaries on the GitHub releases page.

Building the Exporter

You can build the exporter using the provided Makefile. Before building the exporter, make sure the following software is installed on your machine:

• make
• git
• Docker for building the container image
• Go for building the binary

Building the Docker Image

To build the Docker image with the exporter, run:

$ make container

Note: go is not required, as the exporter binary is built in a Docker container. See the Dockerfile.

Building the Binary

To build the binary, run:

$ make

Note: the binary is built for the OS/arch of your machine. To build binaries for other platforms, see the Makefile.

The binary is built with the name bitcoin-prometheus-exporter.

Credits

Thank you contributors!

bitcoin Prometheus Exporter is maintained by platanus.

License

Bitcoin Prometheus Exporter is © 2018 platanus, spa. It is free software and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.