The Pure Storage FlashArray OpenMetrics exporter has been deprecated in favor of the native exporter available in Purity//FA 6.6.11+.
The semantic conventions remains the same on both versions of the exporter, thus it will allow for an easy migration. Further integration documentation on how to migrate, as well as updated integrations will be coming soon. Please reach out to pure-observability@purestorage.com if you require assistance.
For further information on the Native FlashArray Exporter, please review the following Pure Storage Support Documents (Requires Pure1 Login)
The Pure Storage FlashArray OpenMetrics exporter is EOL effective 9/30/2024 (version 1.0.23). No new features or metrics will be released within this exporter, however it will be supported with bug fixes until EOS.
The Pure Storage FlashArray OpenMetrics exporter is EOS effective once 6.9.x is certified for enterprise release.
For future feature requests, please contact Pure Storage Support
OpenMetrics exporter for Pure Storage FlashArray.
This exporter is provided under Best Efforts support by the Pure Portfolio Solutions Group, Open Source Integrations team. For feature requests and bugs please use GitHub Issues. We will address these as soon as we can, but there are no specific SLAs.
This application aims to help monitor Pure Storage FlashArrays by providing an "exporter", which means it extracts data from the Purity API and converts it to the OpenMetrics format, which is for instance consumable by Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
The stateless design of the exporter allows for easy configuration management as well as scalability for a whole fleet of Pure Storage arrays. The design follows almost completely the multi-target-exporter pattern described in the Prometheus documentation, so the tool can be used to scrape multiple FlashArrays from a single instance or just act the front-end for a single FlashArray.
To monitor your Pure Storage appliances, you will need to create a new dedicated user on your array, and assign read-only permissions to it. Afterwards, you also have to create a new API key.
The exporter is a Go application based on the Prometheus Go client library and Resty, a simple but reliable HTTP and REST client library for Go . It is preferably built and launched via Docker. You can also scale the exporter deployment to multiple containers on Kubernetes thanks to the stateless nature of the application.
Detailed examples of how to deploy several configurations either using Docker or an executable binary can be in docs/deployment-examples.md.
docker pull quay.io/purestorage/pure-fa-om-exporter:<release>where the release tag follows the semantic versioning.
Binary downloads of the exporter can be found on the Releases page.
The following commands describe how to run a typical build :
# clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:PureStorage-OpenConnect/pure-fa-openmetrics-exporter.git
# modify the code and build the package
cd pure-fa-openmetrics-exporter
...
make build .The newly built exporter binary can be found in the ./out/bin directory.
Optionally, to build the binary with the vendor cache, you may use
make build-with-vendor
The provided dockerfile can be used to generate a docker image of the exporter. The image can be built using docker as follows
VERSION=<version>
docker build -t pure-fa-ome:$VERSION .
# You can also use the make file to build a docker-image
cd pure-fa-openmetrics-exporter
...
make docker-buildAuthentication is used by the exporter as the mechanism to cross authenticate to the scraped appliance, therefore for each array it is required to provide the REST API token for an account that has a 'readonly' role. The api-token can be provided in two ways
- using the HTTP Authorization header of type 'Bearer', or
- via a configuration map in a specific configuration file.
The first option requires specifying the api-token value as the authorization parameter of the specific job in the Prometheus configuration file. The second option provides the FlashArray/api-token key-pair map for a list of arrays in a simple YAML configuration file that is passed as parameter to the exporter. This makes possible to write more concise Prometheus configuration files and also to configure other scrapers that cannot use the HTTP authentication header.
The exporter can be started in TLS mode (HTTPS, mutually exclusive with the HTTP mode) by providing the X.509 certificate and key files in the command parameters. Self-signed certificates are also accepted.
The X-Request-ID Header, as used in the Purity API, may be used when calling the OpenMetrics exporter by using the HTTP Header X-Request-ID. It will then be passed and used when requesting metrics from the Purity API.
usage: pure-fa-om-exporter [-h|--help] [-a|--address "<value>"] [-p|--port <integer>] [-d|--debug] [-s|--secure] [-t|--tokens <file>] [-c|--cert "<value>"] [-k|--key "<value>"]
Pure Storage FA OpenMetrics exporter
Arguments:
-h --help Print help information
-a --address IP address for this exporter to bind to. Default: 0.0.0.0
-p --port Port for this exporter to listen. Default: 9490
-d --debug Enable debug. Default: false
-s --secure Enable TLS verification when connecting to array. Default: false
-t --tokens API token(s) map file
-c --cert SSL/TLS certificate file. Required only for Exporter TLS
-k --key SSL/TLS private key file. Required only for Exporter TLSThe array token configuration file must have to following syntax:
<array_id1>:
address: <ip-address>|<hosname1>
api_token: <api-token1>
<array_id2>:
address: <ip-address2>|<hostname2>
api_token: <api-token2>
...
<array_idN>:
address: <ip-addressN>|<hostnameN>
api_token: <api-tokenN>When the array token configuration file is used, the array_id key must be used as the endpoint argument for the scraped URL.
For usage a usage example of how to use this feature with a Docker container, see Docker Usage Examples below.
The exporter uses a RESTful API schema to provide Prometheus scraping endpoints.
| URL | GET parameters | Description |
|---|---|---|
| http://<exporter-host>:<port>/metrics | endpoint | Full array metrics |
| http://<exporter-host>:<port>/metrics/array | endpoint | Array only metrics |
| http://<exporter-host>:<port>/metrics/volumes | endpoint | Volumes only metrics |
| http://<exporter-host>:<port>/metrics/hosts | endpoint | Hosts only metrics |
| http://<exporter-host>:<port>/metrics/pods | endpoint | Pods only metrics |
| http://<exporter-host>:<port>/metrics/directories | endpoint | Directories only metrics |
Depending on the target array, scraping for the whole set of metrics could result into timeout issues, in which case it is suggested either to increase the scraping timeout or to scrape each single endpoint instead.
A sample of a basic configuration file for Prometheus is as follows.
global:
scrape_interval: 30s
scrape_timeout: 10s
evaluation_interval: 30s
scrape_configs:
- job_name: monitoring/pure-fa-probe
honor_timestamps: true
scrape_interval: 30s
scrape_timeout: 10s
metrics_path: /metrics/pods
scheme: http
follow_redirects: true
enable_http2: true
relabel_configs:
- source_labels: [job]
separator: ;
regex: (.*)
target_label: __tmp_prometheus_job_name
replacement: $1
action: replace
- separator: ;
regex: (.*)
target_label: job
replacement: pure-fa-probe
action: replace
- source_labels: [__address__]
separator: ;
regex: (.*)
target_label: __param_endpoint
replacement: $1
action: replace
- source_labels: [__param_endpoint]
separator: ;
regex: (.*)
target_label: instance
replacement: $1
action: replace
- separator: ;
regex: (.*)
target_label: __address__
replacement: pure-fa-exporter.your.domain:9490 # <== your exporter address and port goes here
action: replace
static_configs:
- targets: # <== the list of your FlashArrays goes here
- 10.11.12.80
- 10.11.12.82
- 10.11.12.90
See the Kubernetes examples for a similar configuration that uses additional configuration items for a simple Prometheus+Kubernetes deployment, or for the more interesting Prometheus operator.
In a typical production scenario, it is recommended to use a visual frontend for your metrics, such as Grafana. Grafana allows you to use your Prometheus instance as a datasource, and create Graphs and other visualizations from PromQL queries. Grafana, Prometheus, are all easy to run as docker containers.
To spin up a very basic set of those containers, use the following commands:
# Pure Storage OpenMetrics Exporter
docker run -d -p 9490:9490 --name pure-fa-om-exporter quay.io/purestorage/pure-fa-om-exporter:<version>
# Prometheus with config via bind-volume (create config first!)
docker run -d -p 9090:9090 --name=prometheus -v /tmp/prometheus-pure.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml -v /tmp/prometheus-data:/prometheus prom/prometheus:latest
# Grafana
docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name=grafana -v /tmp/grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana grafana/grafanaOn starting the container, the Dockerfile will create an empty /etc/pure-fa-om-exporter/tokens.yaml file whether the users requires it or not. If the file is blank, the container will successfully start. If the container has a volume attached to the /etc/pure-fa-om-exporter/ directory containing a valid tokens.yaml file the container will utilize the contents.
# Pure Storage OpenMetrics Exporter container with authentication tokens
docker run -d -p 9490:9490 --name pure-fa-om-exporter --volume /hostpathtofile/tokens.yaml:/etc/pure-fa-om-exporter/tokens.yaml quay.io/purestorage/pure-fa-om-exporter:<version>Changes to the tokens.yaml file can be reloaded by restarting the Docker container.
docker restart pure-fa-om-exporterPlease have a look at the documentation of each image/application for adequate configuration examples.
A simple but complete example to deploy a full monitoring stack on Kubernetes can be found in the examples directory
A complete example monitoring stack implemented in Docker Compose which can be found in the examples directory.
Usage example of how to deploy the exporter with TLS using the pure-fa-om-exporter binary.
Deployment:
$ ./pure-fa-om-exporter -c cert.crt -k cert.key
2023/08/01 12:00:00 Start Pure FlashArray exporter v1.0.9 on 0.0.0.0:9490Testing:
$ cURL --header 'Authorization: Bearer xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' --request GET 'https://pure-fa-exporter.your.domain:9490/metrics/array?endpoint=arrayname.your.domain' --insecure --silent | grep purefa_info
# HELP purefa_info FlashArray system information
# TYPE purefa_info gauge
purefa_info{array_name="arrayname",os="Purity//FA",system_id="xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",version="6.4.5"} 1Please refer to the purefa metrics specification for full details about all metrics.
| Metric Name | Description |
|---|---|
| purefa_info | FlashArray system information |
| purefa_alerts_open | FlashArray open alert events |
| purefa_array_performance_average_bytes | FlashArray array average operations size in bytes |
| purefa_array_performance_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray array throughput in bytes per second |
| purefa_array_performance_latency_usec | FlashArray array latency in microseconds |
| purefa_array_performance_queue_depth_ops | FlashArray array queue depth size |
| purefa_array_performance_throughput_iops | FlashArray array throughput in iops |
| purefa_array_space_bytes | FlashArray array space in bytes |
| purefa_array_space_data_reduction_ratio | FlashArray array space data reduction |
| purefa_array_space_utilization | FlashArray array space utilization in percent |
| purefa_directory_performance_average_bytes | FlashArray directory average operations size in bytes |
| purefa_directory_performance_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray directory throughput in bytes per second |
| purefa_directory_performance_latency_usec | FlashArray directory latency in microseconds |
| purefa_directory_performance_throughput_iops | FlashArray directory throughput in iops |
| purefa_directory_space_bytes | FlashArray directory space in bytes |
| purefa_directory_space_data_reduction_ratio | FlashArray directory space data reduction |
| purefa_host_connections_info | FlashArray host volumes connections |
| purefa_host_performance_average_bytes | FlashArray host average operations size in bytes |
| purefa_host_performance_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray host bandwidth in bytes per second |
| purefa_host_performance_latency_usec | FlashArray host latency in microseconds |
| purefa_host_performance_throughput_iops | FlashArray host throughput in iops |
| purefa_host_space_bytes | FlashArray host space in bytes |
| purefa_host_space_data_reduction_ratio | FlashArray host space data reduction |
| purefa_host_space_size_bytes | FlashArray host volumes size |
| purefa_hw_component_status | FlashArray hardware component status |
| purefa_hw_component_temperature_celsius | FlashArray hardware component temperature in C |
| purefa_hw_component_voltage_volt | FlashArray hardware component voltage |
| purefa_network_interface_performance_bandwidth_bytes | network interfaces bandwidth in bytes per second |
| purefa_network_interface_performance_throughput_pkts | FlashArray network interfaces throughput in packets per second |
| purefa_network_interface_performance_errors | FlashArray network interfaces errors per second |
| purefa_pod_performance_average_bytes | FlashArray pod average operations size |
| purefa_pod_performance_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray pod throughput in bytes per second |
| purefa_pod_performance_latency_usec | FlashArray pod latency in microseconds |
| purefa_pod_performance_throughput_iops | FlashArray pod throughput in iops |
| purefa_pod_space_bytes | FlashArray pod space in bytes |
| purefa_pod_space_data_reduction_ratio | FlashArray pod space data reduction |
| purefa_pod_performance_replication_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray pod replication bandwidth in bytes per second |
| purefa_pod_replica_links_performance_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray pod replica links throughput in bytes per second |
| purefa_pod_replica_links_lag_average_msec | FlashArray pod replica links average lag in milliseconds |
| purefa_pod_replica_links_lag_max_msec | FlashArray pod replica links maximum lag in in milliseconds |
| purefa_volume_performance_average_bytes | FlashArray volume average operations size in bytes |
| purefa_volume_performance_bandwidth_bytes | FlashArray volume throughput in bytes per second |
| purefa_volume_performance_latency_usec | FlashArray volume latency in microseconds |
| purefa_volume_performance_throughput_iops | FlashArray volume throughput in iops |
| purefa_volume_space_bytes | FlashArray volume space in bytes |
| purefa_volume_space_data_reduction_ratio | FlashArray volume space data reduction |
While most monitoring and observability platforms should be able to utilize the OpenMetrics standard, some platforms may require some form of minor config or development to integrate. This is normal for any device providing metrics, not just Pure Storage.
Pure Storage are working with observability platform vendors to ensure products work out of the box including a fleet wide overview dashboard.
For more information on developed observability platform integrations such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana & Prometheus, take a look at extra/o11y_platforms.md.
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.
