ping-exporter

Building and running

Local Build

make
./ping-exporter

Visiting http://localhost:9346/ping?target=google.com will return metrics for an ICMP ping against google.com.

Building with Docker

docker build -t ping-exporter .
docker run -d -p 9346:9346 --name=ping-exporter ping-exporter

Settings

Environment variable	Default Value
PING_EXPORTER_LISTEN	[::]:9346
PING_EXPORTER_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL	v4
PING_EXPORTER_RESOLVER	system
PING_EXPORTER_DEFAULT_COUNT	5
PING_EXPORTER_MAX_COUNT	30
PING_EXPORTER_DEFAULT_PING_TIMEOUT	1000
PING_EXPORTER_MAX_PING_TIMEOUT	10000
PING_EXPORTER_DEFAULT_RESOLVE_TIMEOUT	1000
PING_EXPORTER_MAX_RESOLVE_TIMEOUT	10000

Available metrics

`/ping` endpoint

Metric name	Type	Description
ping_resolve_error	gauge	Boolean metric if there’s an error during the resolve (error message will be in “error” label)
ping_resolve_time	gauge	Time it take to resolve domain to an IP address
ping_packets_total	gauge	Total number of sent pings
ping_packets_success	gauge	Total number of success pings
ping_packets_failed	gauge	Total number of failed pings
ping_packets_loss	gauge	A percentage of failed pings from the total pings
ping_times	histogram	A histogram of round-trip times

`/metrics` endpoint

Metric name	Type	Description
http_ping	counter	Number of requests to /ping endpoint

Prometheus Configuration

This exporter needs to be passed the target as a parameter, this can be done with relabelling.

Example config:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'ping'
    metrics_path: /ping
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - google.com # Target to ping
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__address__]
        target_label: __param_target
      - source_labels: [__param_target]
        target_label: instance
      - target_label: __address__
        replacement: 127.0.0.1:9346 # This exporter's real hostname:port

In addition to that you can scrape the /metrics endpoint to be able to monitor exporter’s own statistics.