• About
  • Features
  • Support
  • Dependencies
• Setup
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Update
• Usage
• License
• Credits
• Appendix

monit_exporter periodically scrapes the monit status and provides its data via HTTP to Prometheus.

This application is written in Go and has the following dependencies:

• client_golang
• logrus
• viper
• charset

This application has the following build requirements:

• Git
• Go

To build the application from source, simply run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/liv-io/monit_exporter.git
cd monit_exporter
go build

To rebuild the application with the latest Go release, execute the following commands:

export GO_VERSION="1.21.3"
cd ~
curl --location https://go.dev/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz --output ~/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzvf ~/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/src/go
sudo mv ~/go /usr/local/src
echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/src/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin' | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/go.sh
source /etc/profile.d/go.sh

git clone https://github.com/liv-io/monit_exporter.git
cd ./monit_exporter/
rm -f go\.mod  go\.sum
sed -i 's@go-version: .*@go-version: ${GO_VERSION}@g' .github/workflows/release.yml
go mod init github.com/liv-io/monit_exporter
go mod tidy

The application will load the config.toml file located in the same directory if present. Use the -conf flag to override the default configuration file name and location.

To run the application, simply execute the Go binary.

Distributed under the MIT License.

See LICENSE file for more information.

Project: monit_exporter

Acknowledgements:

• commercetools
• delucks