Expose addresses for interfaces

[JJinMaine]

Hello,

I can't quite figure out how to get the list of currently assigned ipv4 IP addresses to be available at the /metrics endpoint. I can see the NIC name and all the NIC stats but there's no ipv4 addresses listed. Am I doing it wrong? Is there a non-default option I need to enable to get it working? My plan is to show a table of assigned IP addresses along with same stats and I'm hoping this is an easy fix. Thanks!

Jim

[carlpett]

Hi @JJinMaine, I do not think we have a good way of exposing that information right now. In general, there could be any number of IP addresses per interface, which also will make it a bit more complicated to query with. We would need to do something like wmi_net_adress{nic="Ethernet",address="10.0.0.1"} 1 etc for each nic/address pair, I think, and then you'd need to write queries something like wmi_net_bytes_total * on(nic) wmi_net_address{address="10.0.0.1"} etc. Which works okay for nics with single IPs, but less obvious with multiple addresses.

[JJinMaine]

Hi @carlpett, That's unfortunate, but it is what it is. Do you think it would be worthwhile submitting a feature request for something like this or has it been addressed previously and already on a backlog for the future? I didn't see anything as I was searching around but I don't want to create any duplicate work.

Thanks!

Jim

[carlpett]

Let's turn this into a feature request instead :) As I mentioned, I'm not completely sure how this would best be implemented, but perhaps someone in the community has an idea

[EccentricVamp]

Just came across this issue while looking for the same info as Jim.

IPv4 is just a 32-bit integer. We traditionally express it in dot-decimal notation, but it can also be rendered and stored as a normal decimal. Because it's only 32 bits, it can fit inside of a single Prometheus time series value (which are 64-bit floats).

So I think something like wmi_net_address{nic="Ethernet"} 167772161 would work for IPv4.

IPv6 is a bit trickier since it's 128-bit. I'm still not sure how best to store that.

@carlpett and @JJinMaine, what are your thoughts?

[danpoltawski]

It'd be nice to have some stuff like we have on the node_exporter with node_network_route_info

node_network_route_info{dest="10.1.1.0/24", device="eth0", priority="0", proto="kernel", src="10.1.1.71"} 1

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[danpoltawski]

Still seems like a worthwhile feature, please don't close.