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=== Prometheus Exporters: ===
=== Prometheus Exporters: ===
[https://prometheus.io/ Prometheus] implements a pull method vs the push method used by the Elastic products.  Metricbeat serves as an interface between the two methods -- one of its modules can read prometheus format metrics -- either produced natively by applications or by specific exporter applications.  A list of exporters from the prometheus website can be found at https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/
[https://prometheus.io/ Prometheus] implements a pull method vs the push method used by the Elastic products.  Metricbeat serves as an interface between the two methods -- one of its modules can read prometheus format metrics -- either produced natively by applications or by specific exporter applications.  A list of exporters from the prometheus website can be found at https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/
A general-purpose exporter is [https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter node_exporter] -- it can export a large range of metrics across many areas of system operations.

Revision as of 00:03, 18 November 2021

(notes -- work in progress)

Getting data for OpenSearch/ElasticSearch is a matter of:

  • Identifying the data to be gathered
  • Finding a way to surface and collect that data
  • Send the data to the ElasticSearch/OpenSearch cluster

Elastic Products

The elastic suite of applications includes tools that are usable for both the Elastic tools and the open source alternatives (such as OpenSearch):

  • Logstash
  • Filebeat
  • Metricbeat

Prometheus Exporters:

Prometheus implements a pull method vs the push method used by the Elastic products. Metricbeat serves as an interface between the two methods -- one of its modules can read prometheus format metrics -- either produced natively by applications or by specific exporter applications. A list of exporters from the prometheus website can be found at https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/

A general-purpose exporter is node_exporter -- it can export a large range of metrics across many areas of system operations.