raspberrypi_exporter

Prometheus exporter for Raspberry Pi metrics

Prerequisites

• Prometheus node_exporter must be installed
• node_exporter --collector.textfile.directory must be set to /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector
• curl must be installed
• vcgencmd must be installed (default in Raspbian)

Usage

Installation

$ curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fahlke/raspberrypi_exporter/master/installer.sh" | sudo bash

Check if the service is running

$ systemctl status raspberrypi_exporter.timer
● raspberrypi_exporter.timer - Timer for the Raspberry Pi Prometheus exporter
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/raspberrypi_exporter.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (waiting) since Mon 2017-12-18 20:54:40 UTC; 5min ago

Check if the metrics are written to disk

$ grep -E "^rpi" /var/lib/node_exporter/textfile_collector/raspberrypi-metrics.prom
rpi_temperature_cpu 53.2
rpi_temperature_bcm2835 53.7
rpi_frequency_arm 1200000000
...

Uninstallation

$ curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fahlke/raspberrypi_exporter/master/uninstaller.sh" | sudo bash

References

List of vcgencmd commands and options:

• RPI vcgencmd usage
• vcgencmd Commands