Squid Prometheus exporter

Exports squid metrics in Prometheus format

NOTE: From release 1.0 metric names and some parameters has changed. Make sure you check the docs and update your deployments accordingly!

Usage:

Simple usage:

squid-exporter -squid-hostname "localhost" -squid-port 3128

Configure Prometheus to scrape metrics from localhost:9301/metrics

- job_name: squid
  # squid-exporter is installed, grab stats about the local
  # squid instance.
  target_groups:
    - targets: ['localhost:9301']

To get all the parameteres

squid-exprter -help

Usage with docker:

Basic setup assuming Squid is running on the same machine:

docker run --net=host -d boynux/squid-exporter

Setup with Squid running on a different host

docker run -p 9301:9301 -d boynux/squid-exporter -squid-hostname "192.168.0.2" -squid-port 3128 -listen ":9301"

Build:

This project is written in Go, so all the usual methods for building (or cross compiling) a Go application would work.

If you are not very familiar with Go you can download the binary from releases.

Or build it for your OS:

go install https://github.com/boynux/squid-exporter

then you can find the binary in: $GOPATH/bin/squid-exporter

Features:

• Expose Squid counters
  • Client HTTP
  • Server HTTP
  • Server ALL
  • Server FTP
  • Server Other
  • ICP
  • CD
  • Swap
  • Page Faults
  • Others
• Histograms
• Other metrics
• Squid Authentication (Basic Auth)

Contribution:

Pull request and issues are very welcome.

Copyright:

MIT License