The Prometheus exporter is a service that collects metrics and transfers them to your Prometheus server for further visualization. Additionally, you can use it to check and analyze the metrics. *but don't overcomplicate things, try Grafana instead :)

The Prometheus exporter collects the following metrics:

• Total number of services
• Total number of servers
• Total number of servers marked as "Enabled" in the Servers section
• Total number of virtual servers
• Total number of users
• Total number of users categorized by roles
• Number of running Checker services for each HAProxy, NGINX, Keepalived, and Apache service
• Total number of running Checker services
• Statuses of Apache, NGINX, Keepalived, and HAProxy services
• Number of alerts per server categorized by type
• Total number of alerts categorized by type
• Number of running Auto start services for each HAProxy, NGINX, Keepalived, and Apache service
• Total number of running Auto start services
• Number of running Metrics services for each HAProxy, NGINX, and Apache service
• Total number of running Metrics services

Installation

1. Run the following commands to install the Prometheus exporter service:

2. Add the following text to the Prometheus configuration file

3. Reload your Prometheus server.

Alternatively, you can install packages by clicking Install in the Admin area => Tools section.

Service management

You can start, stop, and restart services in the Admin area => Tools section. To do this, click the corresponding button next to the desired service.

To update services, go to the Admin area => Update section and click Update next to the desired service.

A ready-made Grafana dashboard is available here for your service.

You can find logs for the Prometheus exporter in the Admin area => Internal logs section.

To view logs:

1. Select the desired log from the drop-down list
2. (Optional) Select the number of rows to display
3. (Optional) Specify the information you want to find in the logs (regular expressions are supported)
4. (Optional) Specify the information you want to exclude from the logs (regular expressions are supported)
5. Select the time period for viewing logs by moving the slider
6. Click Show

For more information about Internal logs, click here.