Ping-Exporter

This exporter provides metrics for ICMP Echo requests in the prometheus compatible format.

Copyright

It is orginally based on ping_exporter by Daniel Czerwonk.

Configuration

Configuration formats

The configuration can either be set using yaml as a format or environmental variables.

For configurations in yaml like:

layer1:
  layer2:
    layer3: true

The value key would be called layer1.layer2.layer3 with the value true when mentioned in this documentation. To use environmental variables for configuration, the key translates to PINGEXPORTER_LAYER1_LAYER2_LAYER3. So every . will be replaced by _ and the name will be all caps.

Further list items will be seperated by space, e.g. PINGEXPORTER_TARGET="192.0.2.1 192.0.2.2"

The configuration in yaml format has to be saved under /etc/ping-exporter/ping-exporter.yaml as of now. The priority of environmental variables is higher than the one of the configuration file and therefore will override the values.

Configuration parameters

The following configuration parameters are available so far:

web:
  listen-address: ":9427" # binding, the http server will be listening on
  telemetry-path: "/metrics" # path, under which the metrics will be exposed
ping:
  interval: "5s" # interval for ICMP requests
  timeout: "4s"  # timeout for ICMP requests
  source:
    ipv4: "0.0.0.0" # Source address of ICMP requests
    ipv6: "::"      # Source address of ICMP requests
  target:
  - 192.0.2.1
  - 192.0.2.2
dns:
  refresh: "1m" # Interval for refreshing DNS records and updating targets accordingly (0 if disabled)

Multiple ping configurations

As of version 0.2.0 it is also possible to use multiple configurations for the ping targets. One use case is use multiple source IP addresses.

When ping.configurations is set, ping.target, ping.source, ping.interval and ping.timeout will not be evaluated and consequently also the corrensponding command line values will be ignored.

Example configuration: