Node Exporter Metrics Documentation

[Greg Beyer]

Is there  documentation explaining all of the metrics available in Node Exporter.

Thank you.

[Matthias Rampke]

At the moment, no. Most metrics are passed through from the kernel; which ones exactly are available or what they mean depends on kernel semantics.

I usually look at one node's /metrics endpoint to get an overview of what is available, along with the help texts. For more tricky cases (such as "how much memory is available"), only looking at how the metric is derived in the exporter and the kernel sources can give you a definite answer.

/MR

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 17:20 Greg Beyer <web...@beyerusa.net> wrote:

Is there  documentation explaining all of the metrics available in Node Exporter.

Thank you.

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