Prometheus `Node Exporter`¶

Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by *NIX kernels, written in Go with pluggable metric collectors.

This chart bootstraps a prometheus Node Exporter daemonset on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Get Repository Info¶

helm repo add prometheus-community https://helm-charts.itboon.top/prometheus-community
helm repo update

See helm repo for command documentation.

Install Chart¶

helm install [RELEASE_NAME] prometheus-community/prometheus-node-exporter

See configuration below.

See helm install for command documentation.

Uninstall Chart¶

helm uninstall [RELEASE_NAME]

This removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

See helm uninstall for command documentation.

Upgrading Chart¶

helm upgrade [RELEASE_NAME] [CHART] --install

See helm upgrade for command documentation.

4.16 to 4.17+¶

containerSecurityContext.readOnlyRootFilesystem is set to true by default.

3.x to 4.x¶

Starting from version 4.0.0, the node exporter chart is using the Kubernetes recommended labels. Therefore you have to delete the daemonset before you upgrade.

kubectl delete daemonset -l app=prometheus-node-exporter
helm upgrade -i prometheus-node-exporter prometheus-community/prometheus-node-exporter

If you use your own custom ServiceMonitor or PodMonitor, please ensure to upgrade their selector fields accordingly to the new labels.

From 2.x to 3.x¶

Change the following:

hostRootFsMount: true

to:

hostRootFsMount:
  enabled: true
  mountPropagation: HostToContainer

Configuring¶

See Customizing the Chart Before Installing. To see all configurable options with detailed comments, visit the chart's values.yaml, or run these configuration commands:

helm show values prometheus-community/prometheus-node-exporter

kube-rbac-proxy¶

You can enable prometheus-node-exporter endpoint protection using kube-rbac-proxy. By setting kubeRBACProxy.enabled: true, this chart will deploy a RBAC proxy container protecting the node-exporter endpoint. To authorize access, authenticate your requests (via a ServiceAccount for example) with a ClusterRole attached such as:

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: prometheus-node-exporter-read
rules:
  - apiGroups: [ "" ]
    resources: ["services/node-exporter-prometheus-node-exporter"]
    verbs:
      - get

See kube-rbac-proxy examples for more details.

Prometheus Node Exporter¶