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Prometheus Exporters - Building

I am looking to build project for below given GitHub links. But unable to understand how to get .exe version/build the project which can be used directly.

https://github.com/justwatchcom/elasticsearch_exporter
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-prometheus

For example : https://github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter in this following steps were mentioned

$ go get github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/oliver006/redis_exporter
$ go build
$ ./redis_exporter <flags>

So I downloaded and installed Go and then used the above method to build and as a resultant I got redis_exporter.exe which I can use to monitor the same.

Solution

  • Most Prometheus exporters are distributed as binaries as part of a release, you can e.g. find Windows binaries for the redis_exporter here and the elasticsearch_exporter here - no need to build them yourselves.

    However, the RabbitMQ Prometheus integration is not done via an exporter but by using a RabbitMQ plugin which will then expose metrics at port 15692 of the RabbitMQ process.

    You can find more information on how to integrate RabbitMQ with Prometheus monitoring in the documentation here.