monitoring files created date in a directory

[ishu...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I have been looking if there is a way prometheus can monitor file modification/creation time. I have some crons generating few files everyday and i want to monitor if these are created every day. If prom can monitor a directory and report all the contents in the directory with their creation timestamps, that would also work for me. 

https://github.com/michael-doubez/filestat_exporter - I see one such exporter but first want to know if there is any prometheus native way of doing this.

Thanks

Eswar

[Harald Koch]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 06:19, ishu...@gmail.com wrote:

I have been looking if there is a way prometheus can monitor file modification/creation time. I have some crons generating few files everyday and i want to monitor if these are created every day. If prom can monitor a directory and report all the contents in the directory with their creation timestamps, that would also work for me. 

Not that I'm aware of, I use two techniques:

1) a textfile-collector script that scans a folder and outputs timestamps. see https://github.com/prometheus-community/node-exporter-textfile-collector-scripts

2) Some tools run from cron can output Prometheus metrics also for the textfile exporter - for example, I run the borg_exporter script automatically from borgmatic: https://github.com/teemow/prometheus-borg-exporter

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Harald