MaxScale Exporter

The Exporter exports the MaxScale metrics for Prometheus:

• Server connections
• Service session count
• MaxScale instance status
• Event statistics per started thread

MaxScale requirements

The exporter uses exclusively MaxScale REST API

Installation

1. Install Golang
2. Create a new folder in your $GOPATH: mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/
3. Navigate to that folder: $GOPATH/src/github.com
4. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Vetal1977/maxctrl_exporter.git

Docker

The latest Docker image of maxctrl_exporter is available here

Build

Manually

1. Change to the project root directory
2. Run go build to build the binary for your platform
3. Build Linux binary: GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o bin/linux/maxctrl_exporter

With Makefile

1. Run make build

Run and test locally

We have prepared a Docker-compose file for a local try. Upon start, you get running MySQL, MaxScale and Exporter containers. Note that the Exported does not use command line arguments rather relies on environment variables:

• MAXSCALE_URL. URL of MaxScale server, default is http://127.0.0.1:8989
• MAXSCALE_USERNAME. MaxScale user name for connection to underlying MySQL database
• MAXSCALE_PASSWORD. MaxScale user password for connection to underlying MySQL database
• MAXSCALE_CA_CERTIFICATE. Certificate to use to verify a secure connection
• MAXSCALE_EXPORTER_PORT. Port that the Exporter expose to provide metrics for Prometheus

Run

1. cd maxscale_docker
2. docker-compose up -d
3. docker-compose down when you are finished

Test

1. The REST API of MaxScale is accessible at localhost:8989. E.g. http://localhost:8989/v1/servers
2. The Exporter of MaxScale is accessible at localhost:8093. E.g. http://localhost:8093/metrics

Contribution

1. Create a new branch
2. Make changes
3. Run MaxScale and maxctrl_exporter locally, e.g. in Docker
4. Check that you can access them and see reasonable output
5. Commit and push the branch
6. Create a PR
7. Request a review from Vitaly Bezgachev, vitaly.bezgachev [the_at_symbol] gmail.com, Kadir Tugan, kadir.tugan [the_at_symbol] gmail.com