prometheus/node_exporter
Exporter for machine metrics observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 93
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 23.0
- age_days: 4885
- days_rel: 50
- days_push: 12
- n_releases_24m: 9
Adoption not part of the score
13719 stars · 2705 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Node exporter is the official Prometheus exporter that exposes hardware and OS metrics from *NIX kernels via an HTTP endpoint on port 9100. It is written in Go with pluggable metric collectors covering CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, and network statistics.
Use cases
- monitor linux server cpu and memory usage with prometheus
- collect disk and filesystem metrics from hosts
- scrape host metrics into prometheus for alerting
- monitor system metrics across a fleet of servers
- export procfs and sysfs stats as prometheus metrics
- run node exporter in docker to monitor the host
When to choose
- you need standard host-level metrics for Prometheus on Linux, macOS, or BSD
- you want the official, widely deployed exporter with pluggable collectors
- you are building Kubernetes or bare-metal monitoring with Prometheus
When to avoid
- you need Windows host metrics (use windows_exporter instead)
- you need NVIDIA GPU metrics (use dcgm-exporter instead)
- you want application-level instrumentation rather than OS metrics
Facets
service · maturity stable
monitoring monitoring self-hosted bsd self-hosted go prometheus-exporter system-metrics host-metrics procfs observability devops linux macos docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter · fetched 2026-08-28 · a2a639c6a320
- homepage: https://prometheus.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 90ad2d078025
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · a05282aeaa43
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7768d893cf39
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1e2a0ce5ca59
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/concepts/data_model · fetched 2026-08-29 · a377e9a58b18
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/basics · fetched 2026-08-29 · cab4a7880e82
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration · fetched 2026-08-29 · eef957bb70ac
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/clientlibs · fetched 2026-08-29 · e814512fea70
- site_page: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters · fetched 2026-08-29 · 16800ed839dd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| prometheus/node_exporter | main | 97 |
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