Kannel Exporter

Kannel exporter for Prometheus. Exposes metrics collected from the kannel status page.

Works with Kannel 1.4.4 or greater.

⚠️ To avoid high cardinality issues, consider using the --filter-smscs flag or dropping metrics on the Prometheus server for big setups.

Usage

kannel_exporter.py [-h] [--target TARGET] [--port PORT]
                   [--timeout SECONDS] [--filter-smscs] [--collect-wdp]
                   [--collect-box-uptime] [--collect-smsc-uptime]
                   [--box-connection-types BOX_CONNECTIONS [BOX_CONNECTIONS ...]]
                   [--log-level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}] [-v]
                   [--password PASSWORD | --password-file PASSWORD_FILE]

Arguments

  -h, --help                 Show this help message and exit
  --target TARGET            Target kannel server, PROTO:HOST:PORT
                             (default http://127.0.0.1:13000)
  --port PORT                Exporter port. (default 9390)
  --timeout SECONDS          Timeout for trying to get stats. (default 15)
  --filter-smscs             Filter out SMSC metrics
  --collect-wdp              Collect WDP metrics
  --collect-box-uptime       Collect boxes uptime metrics
  --collect-smsc-uptime      Collect SMSCs uptime metrics
  --box-connection-types     List of box connection types. (default wapbox, smsbox)
  --disable-exporter-metrics Disable exporter metrics
  --log-level LEVEL          Define the logging level
  -v, --version              Display version information and exit
  --password PASSWORD        Password of the kannel status page
  --password-file FILE       File contains the kannel status password

Environment Variables

Instead of command line arguments, values can be passed using environment variables.

--target    KANNEL_HOST
--password  KANNEL_STATUS_PASSWORD
--port      KANNEL_EXPORTER_PORT
--timeout   KANNEL_EXPORTER_TIMEOUT

Install

Exporter requires Python 3.6 or greater.

git clone https://github.com/apostvav/kannel_exporter.git
cd kannel_exporter
pip install -r requirements.txt

Docker

Run exporter using docker.

docker pull apostvav/kannel_exporter
docker run -d -p 9390:9390 apostvav/kannel_exporter

Run as a service

If you're on a systemd distro, create file /etc/systemd/system/kannel_exporter.service with content:

[Unit]
Description=Kannel Exporter
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=<USER>
Group=<GROUP>
ExecStart=/path/to/kannel_exporter.py --password-file /path/to/secret

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and then run commands:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start kannel_exporter.service
systemctl enable kannel_exporter.service

Contribute

Any contribution is welcome. Feel free to open issues and pull requests.

For any scraping issues you may have, please open an issue and attach the status xml file.
Don't forget to strip any information that should not be shared.