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Metrics contain bogus sources

Open scamp opened this issue 3 months ago • 3 comments

Chronyc_exporter version 0.12.1 outputs metrics for sources that are not actually configured with chrony server

# TYPE chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds gauge
chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds{source_address="0:1::",source_name="0:1::"} 4.294967295e+09
chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds{source_address="0:2::",source_name="0:2::"} 4.294967295e+09
chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds{source_address="0:3::",source_name="0:3::"} 4.294967295e+09
chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds{source_address="0:5::",source_name="0:5::"} 4.294967295e+09
chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds{source_address="0:6::",source_name="0:6::"} 4.294967295e+09
chrony_sources_last_sample_age_seconds{source_address="0:8::",source_name="0:8::"} 4.294967295e+09

cmdline: /usr/local/bin/chrony_exporter --collector.sources chrony version: 4.0-8+deb11u2

scamp avatar Oct 12 '25 17:10 scamp

What do you get from chronyc sources?

SuperQ avatar Oct 13 '25 06:10 SuperQ

$ chronyc -n sources
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^- 172.16.0.14                   2   7   377    62   -687us[ -687us] +/-   11ms
^* 193.106.144.7                 2   7   377    82    -40us[  -29us] +/-  383us
^+ 193.106.144.6                 2   8   377   141    -37us[  -27us] +/-  370us
^- 31.28.161.68                  1   9   377   108   -450us[ -440us] +/- 3542us
^- 62.149.0.30                   1   9   377   142   -379us[ -369us] +/- 3743us
^- 162.159.200.1                 3  10   377   900   +186us[ +243us] +/-   14ms
^- 129.134.25.123                1  10   377   525   +472us[ +509us] +/-   16ms
^- 216.239.35.0                  1  10   377   271   -615us[ -616us] +/-   19ms
^+ 172.16.0.101                  2   7   377    31    +46us[  +46us] +/-  342us
^+ 172.16.0.102                  2   7   377    52    +73us[  +73us] +/-  916us

scamp avatar Oct 16 '25 09:10 scamp

The exporter only reports what it gets back from the chrony API. So without some debugging it's impossible to say why.

SuperQ avatar Nov 04 '25 08:11 SuperQ