Exporter

The blackbox exporter is used for probing other servers and Services from the satellite node’s perspective via HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SSH, POP, TCP, ICMP etc. This can be used, for example, to check whether an application server has a stable connection to the database or DNS server. this can be used, for example, to check whether an application server has a stable connection to the database or DNS server.

The BPC server provides the metrics via an endpoint.

The Cert-Exporter is used to monitor the validity of certificates.
An alarm can then also be set for this in order to be informed promptly about TLS certificates that are about to expire (e.g. in reverse proxy).

The Cloudwatch exporter is used to extract values from the AWS Cloudwatch for consolidated display in the VIMON.

Exporter | Linux | Windows

| Blackbox-Exporter | x | x

| [bpc_exporter] | x | x

| [cert_exporter] | x | x

| [cloudwatch_exporter] | x | x

| File count exporter | x |

| Folder exporter | x | x

| Diskbench exporter | x | x

| Exim exporter | x |

| Grok exporter | x | x

| HAProxy exporter | x |

| ISDB exporter | x | x

| File count exporter | x |

| JavaPlugin-Exporter | x | x

| JMX-Term-Exporter | x |

| Keycloak-Exporter | x | x

| MySQL-Exporter | x | x

| Node-Exporter | x |

| Process-Exporter | x |

| Promtail | x | x

| Script-Exporter | x xml-ph-0034@deepl.i

The file count exporter shows Prometheus the number of files in any interface folders.

Example:
In the example interface, ~200 XML files are stored in a folder every hour, which are then read in and processed by INUBIT while maintaining the order. The fill level should be visible in Grafana and it should be possible to set an alarm. Hence this exporter. It is based on the Node Exporter:

The list of folders to be monitored can be freely configured (here e.g. /control2inubit, /reko2inubit and /transport2inubit)

The diskbench exporter can measure the write and read speed and authorization of locally and remotely mounted file systems. It cyclically writes a file of a selectable size to a directory and reads it out again. This can be used to monitor whether the speeds fluctuate greatly and whether backups, for example, are a reason for performance fluctuations.

The node exporter and Windows exporter determine how much throughput certain storage devices currently have. However, neither measures how much is theoretically possible.
The diskbench exporter can also be used for this purpose.

In the following cases, it makes sense to regularly perform a throughput check:

A file of a definable size is written when the exporter is called, then read again and the checksum checked.
The exporter then outputs the success and duration of the individual operations for each configured file.

The Exim exporter is used to release mail server statistics from the Exim for monitoring.

The folder exporter can be used to monitor the number of files (and folders) in desired directories. This can be used, for example, to record the fill level of transfer directories that are filled or processed by INUBIT.

The Grok-Exporter can be used to read metrics from log files or to add up the number of entries in logs. It is similar to Promtail in that it also scrapes log files.

However, the Grok exporter only evaluates patterns and either returns numerical values (gauges) determined from the corresponding lines or reports that or how many lines (counters) of a certain pattern have occurred.

This can be used to determine whether certain errors/abnormalities have occurred.
On the other hand, the times of the LogDB accesses from INUBIT or the JMS queue size of the AS4 gateway, which are written numerically in the respective logs, can also be mapped in VIMON.

The HAProxy exporter is used to extract statistics on incoming and outgoing connections, as well as the status of backends and servers from the HAProxy.

Classically, it connects to a socket, which is why the corresponding authorizations must be set here.

The ISDB-Exporter provides the metrics of the INUBIT REST interface for versions lower than version 7.4.0.50. It can act as a generic DB connector to measure the database availability from the perspective of the application server. It can therefore also process specialist data from the DB and provide it as a metric (e.g. number of incoming messages per minute). Data and statistics can be extracted from databases, but functions can also be triggered.For example, the number of incoming messages per minute).

Data and statistics can be extracted from databases, but functions can also be triggered. The exporter also measures the runtimes of the individual statements so that information about the availability and performance of the database can be determined and mapped in VIMON.

With the Virtimo JavaPlugin-Exporter, you can program your own plugins with Java without having to worry about the technical integration into the VIMON. The following plugins are currently available and can be added to the JavaPlugin-Exporter:

This exporter can connect to Java processes via JMX and provide internal metrics, e.g. Tomcat threads or DB Connection Pooling information.
It is also used to read bean information from the INUBIT Tomcat. The exporter is based on the JMX term JAR and an adaptation of the script exporter to connect to the running INUBIT Tomcat. It can read any beans from there.

Example:

The Keycloak exporter is used to extract statistics and status information from Keycloak.

The MySQL-Exporter is used to extract statistics and status information from the MySQL/MariaDB.

This provides information about the daemon itself as well as about queries (e.g. statistics on IOWaits and locks) and sessions.

The node exporter collects basic data of the Linux operating system. It outputs various environment parameters, e.g.:

No distinction is made between different processes.

Under Linux, the Process-Exporter extends the data of the Node-Exporter with process-specific data. It can be used to monitor individual processes or process groups for utilization and other metrics. This makes it possible, for example, to limit load peaks to processes. this also makes it possible, for example, to limit load peaks on processes.

Statistics are grouped and output for a process or process group, e.g.:

Promtail is used to read in log files and transfer them to Loki. Any log files can be imported into the VIMON in this way.
The time reference is thus retained in Loki and individual log messages can be assigned to specific anomalies in the VIMON interface

In addition to log file scraping, Promtail can also act as an RSyslog server.

The script exporter is a generic exporter that is only used to call local self-written scripts and return their success, runtime and, if applicable, response. Response. It can therefore be used for any application, e.g. to return information from files or to evaluate curl with jq and thus evaluate data from the BPC and make it available for VIMON, for example.

The Windows exporter is the Windows counterpart to both the node exporter and the process exporter.
It exposes status values of the Windows host, e.g.:

In addition, it also provides statistics at process/service level.