Prometheus exporter for the national weather service observation api
Documentation can be found here.
The endpoints refresh around once every hour or two. It doesn't seem like the interval that it gets updated at is too consistent.
All we are doing here is making a GET request to this URL:
https://api.weather.gov/stations/<Station_Name>/observations/latest
A less than perfect way to find a station near you would be to go to https://www.weather.gov and click through the map to find where you are, and that should land you on a page leading with "Current conditions at <City, Location> (Station Name)"
Once you've found the station name, thats all we need to get started. If we found the station name to be KRKS an example run would look like:
nws_exporter -station KRKS
git clone https://github.com/rwaweber/nws_exporter
cd nws_exporter
go build
After building, the nws_exporter executable can be found in the current
directory.
| name | unit | type |
|---|---|---|
nws_humidity |
percent | guage |
nws_barometric_pressure |
pascals | guage |
nws_dewpoint |
celsius | guage |
nws_humidity |
percent | guage |
nws_temperature |
celsius | guage |
nws_visibility |
meters | guage |
nws_wind_direction |
degrees (angle) | guage |
nws_wind_speed |
kilometers per hour | guage |
options:
Usage of nws_exporter:
-addr string
nws address (default "api.weather.gov")
-backofftime int
backofftime in seconds (default 100)
-help
help info
-localaddr string
The address to listen on for HTTP requests (default ":8080")
-station string
nws address (default "KPHL")
-timeout int
timeout in seconds (default 10)
-verbose
verbose logging