Ansible Role: service exporter

Description

Deploy prometheus Tylux prometheus_service_exporter using ansible.

Tylux service_exporter allow to monitor Linux services and is lightweigth than node_exporter

Notes

Role forked and largely inspired by Cloudalchemy Blackbox Exporter Ansible role

Role is supposed to work with Debian, Suse, RedHat, Fedora, (See Ansible Galaxy meta), but it was only tested on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04).

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.7 (It might work on previous versions, but we cannot guarantee it)

Role Variables

All variables which can be overridden are stored in defaults/main.yml file.

Only two are defined:

• service_exporter_version: version of service_exporter to install
• service_exporter_web_listen_address: IP and port to listen

The third is commented and must be defined :

• service_exporter_service_list : list of service to monitor

Example

Playbook

Use it in a playbook as follows:

- hosts: all
  vars:
    service_exporter_service_list:
      - apache2.service
  roles:
    - umanit.prometheus_service_exporter

License

This project is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.