installing collectd_exporter - failed for the last few days

[Tzach Livyatan]

Hello all

I have a script which install collectd_exporter as follow (on CentOS 7.2)

git clone https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter
cd collectd_exporter
make

Since a change, I believe in the last few days, I get the following:

$ make
>> formatting code
can't load package: package _/home/centos/collectd_exporter: cannot find package "_/home/centos/collectd_exporter" in any of:
        /usr/lib/golang/src/_/home/centos/collectd_exporter (from $GOROOT)
        ($GOPATH not set)
make: *** [format] Error 1

I opened an issue #1280 with this subject.

To bypass, I run collectd_exporter  as a docker container. It successfully exports internal metrics to HTTP (port 9103), but I failed to forward collectd metric to it. 

Maybe I should use docker networking, but running the native version without Docker is a better option for me.

Advice will be appreciated. Can I just download the compiled, binary, collectd_exporter?

Thanks

Tzach

[Matthias Rampke]

The build process recently changed. It seems like it now expects a working GOPATH environment to build, which you seem to be missing.

Using the compiled binary is certainly more stable and should work. It is a big behind master though… time for a release I guess.

You can build from source in a properly set up dev environment, `make tarball` produces a nice distributable for you, but you'll need a working Go setup. See https://golang.org/doc/install for details on that.

/MR

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[Tzach Livyatan]

Thanks Matthias

Since I'm using collectd_exporter on a production, not dev server, it makes more sense to download a binary.

I updated my Ansible script[1] to download the latest binary (0.2.0). It had some problems[2] already fix in the main branch but works fine.

Best Regards

Tzach 

[1] https://github.com/scylladb/cassandra-test-and-deploy/pull/91 

[2] https://github.com/prometheus/collectd_exporter/issues/14

[Matthias Rampke]

FYI, we released collectd_exporter version 0.3.1 with the changes that accumulated since 0.2.0, although as I see it the PR you linked was already included in 0.2.0.

Cheers,

MR