Prometheus Shell Exporter

Shell Exporter can execute Powershell or Bash scripts and transform its output to Prometheus metrics.

Metrics

Shell Exporter exposes metrics based on your Powershell or Bash scripts names. Examples of scripts can be finded at metrics folder

Script name	Metric name
bash_gauge.sh	bash_gauge
pse_tcp_connection_metrics.ps1	pse_tcp_connection_metrics
pse_tcp_dynamic_port_range_number_of_ports.ps1	pse_tcp_dynamic_port_range_number_of_ports

Startup options

Option	Default value	Description
--f	./metrics	scripts directory
--port	9360	exporter port
--help	-	show help
--version	-	show exporter version

Installing as Windows Service

1. Download binary
2. Install nssm via Chocolatey

Action	Command
install	nssm install shell_exporter C:\shell-exporter.exe -f C:\scripts
remove	nssm remove shell_exporter confirm

Development

1. Make branch from master
2. Reopen repo at vscode container
3. Make necessary changes
4. Push it to branch and make pull-request

Makefile targets

Target	Action
build	build binary for linux and windows platforms
tidy	remove all dependencies from the go.mod file which are not required in the source files
test	run unit tests
lint	run linting
run	run exporter locally