Run the following commands on each linux node to install Node Exporter as service.

Procedure

  1. Download and move the node exporter binary to /usr/local/bin (You can find the latest binaries from official github link for node_Exporter)
    wget https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/releases/download/v*/node_exporter-*.*-amd64.tar.gz tar xvfz node_exporter-*.*-amd64.tar.gz sudo mv node_exporter-*.*-amd64/node_exporter /usr/local/bin/
  2. Create a node_exporter user to run the node exporter service.
    sudo useradd -rs /bin/false node_exporter
  3. Create a node_exporter service file under systemd.
    sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/node_exporter.service<<EOF [Unit] Description=Node Exporter After=network.target [Service] User=node_exporter Group=node_exporter Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node_exporter [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF
  4. Reload the system daemon and start the node exporter service.
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl start node_exporter sudo systemctl enable node_exporter
  5. Check the status of node exporter if it is running in active state.
    sudo systemctl status node_exporter
    You can see all the server metrics or node metrics from the following link.
    http://<Node-IP>:9100/metrics
    .