Prometheus ZFS metrics exporter

This is a simple exporter for the Prometheus metrics for zfs by utilizing py-libzfs. The script zfsprom.py also comes with zfsprom.service so that you can run this script in the background on your Linux OS via systemctl. The script will listen on 0.0.0.0:9901 by default. You can use the --port and --addr command line flags to change this.

This python script only exports the following metrics:

• active - Enum, zfsprom_active, Active state (ACTIVE, EXPORTED, DESTROYED, etc...)
• size - Gauge, zfsprom_size, Size (bytes)
• alloc - Gauge, zfsprom_alloc, Allocated space (bytes)
• free - Gauge, zfsprom_free, Free space (bytes)
• op_read - Gauge, zfsprom_op_read, Operations read
• op_write - Gauge, zfsprom_op_write, Operations write
• bw_read - Gauge, zfsprom_bw_read, Bandwidth read (bytes)
• bw_write - Gauge, zfsprom_bw_write, Bandwidth write (bytes)
• errors_read - Gauge, zfsprom_errors_read, Read errors
• errors_write - Gauge, zfsprom_errors_write, Write errors
• errors_cksum - Gauge, zfsprom_errors_cksum, Checksum errors
• status - Enum, zfsprom_disk_status, Disk status', (ONLINE, OFFLINE, etc...)

Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/r/matusnovak/prometheus-zfs

Why?

The node-exporter for Prometheus does a very good job at exporting most of the ZFS metrics, but this script exports the ones that can not be obtained via node-exporter, such as available space.

Install

1. Make sure you have successfully built and installed (run make install as sudo!) the py-libzfs library.
2. Copy the zfsprom.service file into /etc/systemd/system folder.
3. Copy the zfsprom.py file anywhere into your system.
4. Modify ExecStart= in the zfsprom.service so that it points to zfsprom.py in your system.
5. Run chmod +x zfsprom.py
6. Install prometheus_client for the root user, example: sudo -H python3 -m pip install prometheus_client
7. Run systemctl enable zfsprom and systemctl start zfsprom
8. Your metrics will now be available at http://localhost:9901

Ports

FreeBSD

• https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/py-prometheus-zfs thanks to @0mp

Docker Usage

version: '3'
services:
  zfs-metrics:
    image: matusnovak/prometheus-zfs:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    ports:
      - 9901:9901

Your metrics will be available at http://localhost:9901/metrics