How to install Node Exporter on Ubuntu 16.04
1 min readApr 13, 2020
Node Exporter is one of the most common exporters for Prometheus which produces metrics about the server, including the CPU, memory and disk usage, as well as I/O and network statistics.
Below Script can be used to install Node Exporter on Ubuntu 16.04 for exporting Node Metrics and then can be scrapped from Prometheus Server.
#!/bin/bash -xenode_exporter_version=0.18.1#Create User
adduser --no-create-home --disabled-login --shell /bin/false --gecos "Node Exporter User" node_exporter#Download Binary
wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v$node_exporter_version/node_exporter-$node_exporter_version.linux-amd64.tar.gz#Untar
tar xvzf node_exporter-$node_exporter_version.linux-amd64.tar.gz#Copy Expoter
cp node_exporter-$node_exporter_version.linux-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/bin/#Assign Ownership Again
chown node_exporter:node_exporter /usr/local/bin/node_exporter#Creating Service File
cat <<- EOF > /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service
[Unit]
Description=Node Exporter
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target[Service]
User=node_exporter
Group=node_exporter
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF#Reload and Start
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8;
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8;
systemctl daemon-reload;
systemctl enable node_exporter
systemctl start node_exporter
systemctl status node_exporter
You can define Node Exporter Version and Create Service of the same.
