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80 lines
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# Install Node-exporter
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You'll need to install node exporter for monitoring
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1. Download Node Exporter
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As first step, you need to download the Node Exporter binary which is available for Linux in the official Prometheus website here. In the website, you will find a table with the list of available builds. Of our interest in this case, is the node_exporter build for Linux AMD64:
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Node Exporter Ubuntu Linux
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In this case the latest available version is the 1.7.0. Copy the .tar.gz URL and download it somewhere in your server using wget or cURL:
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`wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v1.7.0/node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz`
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2. Extract Node Exporter and move binary
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After downloading the latest version of Node Exporter, proceed to extract the content of the downloaded tar using the following command:
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`tar xvf node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz`
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The content of the zip will be extracted in the current directory, the extracted directory will contain 3 files:
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LICENSE (license text file)
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node_exporter (binary)
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NOTICE (license text file)
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You only need to move the binary file node_exporter to the /usr/local/bin directory of your system. Switch to the node_exporter directory:
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`cd node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64`
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And then copy the binary file with the following command:
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`sudo cp node_exporter /usr/local/bin`
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Then you can remove the directory that we created after extracting the zip file content:
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# Exit current directory
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`cd ..`
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# Remove the extracted directory
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`rm -rf ./node_exporter-1.7.0.linux-amd64`
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3. Create Node Exporter User
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As a good practice, create an user in the system for Node Exporter:
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`sudo useradd --no-create-home --shell /bin/false node_exporter`
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And set the owner of the binary node_exporter to the recently created user:
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`sudo chown node_exporter:node_exporter /usr/local/bin/node_exporter`
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4. Create and start the Node Exporter service
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The Node Exporter service should always start when the server boots so it will always be available to be scrapped for information. Create the node_exporter.service file with nano:
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`sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service`
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And paste the following content in the file:
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```
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[Unit]
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Description=Node Exporter
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Wants=network-online.target
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After=network-online.target
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[Service]
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User=node_exporter
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Group=node_exporter
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Type=simple
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ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter
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Restart=always
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RestartSec=3
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[Install]https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download
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WantedBy=multi-user.target
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```
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Close nano and save the changes to the file. Proceed to reload the daemon with:
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`sudo systemctl daemon-reload`
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And finally enable the node_exporter service with the following command:
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`sudo systemctl enable node_exporter`
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And then start the service:
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`sudo systemctl start node_exporter`
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`sudo ufw allow 9090`
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`sudo ufw allow 9100`
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now go to `http://localhost:9100/metrics` |