Metric exporter for bird routing daemon to use with Prometheus
Since bird_exporter uses the bird unix sockets, bird has to be installed on the same mashine as bird_exporter. Also the user executing bird_exporter must have permission to access the bird socket files.
To get meaningful uptime information bird has to be configured this way:
timeformat protocol "%s";
In version 0.7.1 the default port changed to 9324 since port 9200 is the default port of elasticsearch. The new port is now registered in the default port allocation list (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/wiki/Default-port-allocations)
In version 0.8 communication to bird changed to sockets. The default socket path is /var/run/bird.ctl (for bird) and /var/run/bird6.ctl (for bird6). In case you are using different paths in your installation, the socket path can be specified by usind the -bird.socket (for bird) and -bird.socket6 (for bird6) flag.
go get -u github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter
- BGP session state
- imported / exported / filtered prefix counts (BGP, OSPF)
- protocol uptimes (BGP, OSPF)
This software uses components of the following projects
- Prometheus Go client library (https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang)
(c) Daniel Czerwonk, 2016. Licensed under MIT license.