@skroutz/cron-exporter

Prometheus Cron Exporter

An exporter built to report various metrics of cron jobs by parsing the syslog files writen to by crond

Installation

Using the repository

1. Run $ yarn to install dependencies
2. Run the tests with $ yarn test
3. Build the exporter with $ yarn build
4. Run $ node ./build/index.js

Via npm package

1. Run $ yarn global add @skroutz/cron-exporter
2. The binary should be installed under $ <PATH_TO_YOUR_NODE_MODULES>/.bin/cron-exporter

Configuration

The exporter can be configured using environment variables

Variable	Description	Default Value
CE_HOST	The host that the app should respond to	undefined
CE_PORT	The port to run the exporter	6748
CE_PREFIX	Metric prefix for prometheus	''
CE_APPEND_TIMESTAMP	Wether the metric should also be timestamped	true
CE_ENDPOINT	Endpoint that the exporter responds to	'/metrics'
CE_LOGFILE	Logfile to parse data from	'/var/log/cron.log'
CE_COLLECT_INTERVAL	Interval of the collecting process in milliseconds	5