Installing node-exporter

Installing node exporter

1. To install the node exporter first you have to identify your os architecture to do so hit this command on the terminal uname -a Then download and extract the appropriate file from this link. https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases

Note that the official download page https://prometheus.io/download/#node_exporter doesn’t have the arm package for linux machine. So use the above link.

2. After this navigate the extracted directory and start the node exporter with this command ./node_exporter This will start the node exporter which by default listened on port 9100

   

3. Now to access the node exporter use this endpoint http://localhost:9090/metrics for viewing the metrics of the lolalhost.