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How to Install Node Exporter on Linux Server

Posted on May 10, 2021May 17, 2021 by Ercan

Node Exporter is a Prometheus exporter for server level and OS level metrics with configurable metric collectors. It helps us in measuring various server resources such as RAM, disk space, and CPU utilization. Node exporter is a good solution to collect all the Linux server-related metrics and statistics for monitoring.

Before Start

  • Prometheus Server
    After node exporter installation, you should send your metrics to the Prometheus server.
  • Sudo Privileges
    You should access your server via SSH with root or your ssh login user should have root privileges with sudo.

Node Exporter Installation Steps

  1. Create a directory

    I prefer to use /opt/node-exporter path for installation. You can also use.

  2. Add user

    You can add a user with a simple command. It’s:
    adduser -r -d /opt/node-exporter node-exporter -s /sbin/nologin

  3. Download the binary

    Download the binary from https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases page and extract the files to /opt/node-exporter path directly.

  4. Change Owner and Group Permissions

    Now, need to set user permissions to execute node_exporter binary.
    chown -R node-exporter:node-exporter /opt/node-exporter

  5. Create a systemd service file

    We should manage this service status with systemd. Now, time to create a systemd service file. The file path should /etc/systemd/system/node-exporter.service You can paste all configurations below into it.

    [Unit]
    Description=Prometheus exporter for machine metrics
    Documentation=https://github.com/flightlesstux/node_exporter

    [Service]
    Restart=always
    User=node-exporter
    Gorup=node-exporter
    ExecStart=/opt/node-exporter/node_exporter
    ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
    TimeoutStopSec=20s
    SendSIGKILL=no

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target


  6. Start the node-exporter

    Now, you can ready to start your node-exporter service with systemctl start node-exporter command.

Now, you can see your servers metrics via http://IP_ADDRESS:9100/metrics url. If you can’t reach the page, you should check your firewall and/or security group settings to allow TCP 9100.

Bonus

Now, you now the steps and what you need for install Node Exporter. I turned this installation to automation and you can feel free to use. Just run the command sh <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flightlesstux/node_exporter/master/installer.sh) and in a few seconds, your node-exporter will be installed.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/flightlesstux/node_exporter

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