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Node Exporter

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics

Monitoring & Status ★ 13.7k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

Node Exporter exposes a wide variety of hardware and operating system metrics from Unix-like systems for Prometheus to scrape. It is the de facto standard for host-level monitoring in the Prometheus ecosystem.

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Key features

  • CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics
  • Many collector modules
  • Tiny resource footprint
  • Standard Prometheus exporter

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Essential for host monitoring
  • Extremely reliable

Trade-offs

  • Host metrics only
  • Requires Prometheus and Grafana

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