YNAB recently made an API to retrieve data for your user account. This project will allow you to poll the YNAB API with your personal access token and it will create and post prometheus metrics on the port of your choice.

The YNAB browser and mobile apps have some graphs available, namely Net Worth at a monthly resolution, but you may be interested in creating your own graphs, at a much finer resolution, on the specific topics worth seeing. Prometheus will scrape the data that the exporter exposes and organize the time series data we would need.

The metrics currently collected are

a sample-config.json can be found as follows.

{
  "port": "8080",
  "include_transactions": true,
  "access_token": "123...yourtoken...abc",
  "interval_seconds": 90
}

The YNAB API enforces rate limiting of 200 requests per hour starting from the first request. The ynab-metrics exporter, dependning on if transactions metrics are configured, will use one request to get your budget IDs, one request to get info from each budget, and one request for each budget's transactions. More budgets means more requests, if you're hitting the rate limit frequently you should adjust the interval_seconds configuration to be larger.

$ git clone https://github.com/theOxifier/ynab-metrics
$ cd ynab-metrics/

The project is ready to be built and run, before continuing create ynab-metrics/config.json based on the sample.json file in the same directory. Replace access_token with your actual access token.

You can create an access token by accessing app.youneedabudget.com/settings, signing in. Scroll down to Developer Settings and create a New Token. Copy the token after it's created and paste it into config.json

Now that config.json has your access token we can build and run ynab-metrics

$ make build
$ make run

As long as no error messages appear, navigate to http://localhost:8080 in your browser and you should see metrics appearing.

Check out the install guides for Prometheus and Grafana, all you should need is to know where ynab-metrics is posting metrics once it's running (default localhost:8080/metrics)

You can run the full prometheus, grafana, ynab-metrics stack with the docker-compose file in ynab-metrics/docker/

Make sure you make build before trying to docker-compose up. After that's done you can cd docker and docker-compose up. Include -d in your command if you want the containers to run in the background.

By default: Grafana will run on port 3000, Prometheus on 9090, and the ynab-metrics exporter on 8080.

The ynab-metrics/config.json file will be mounted and used to run the ynab-metrics container. The ynab-metrics/docker/prometheus/prometheus.yml config is used for prometheus.