bareos_exporter

Prometheus exporter for bareos data recovery system

Dockerfile

Usage with docker

1. Create a file containing your mysql password and mount it inside /bareos_exporter/pw/auth
2. (optional) Overwrite default args using ENV variables
3. Run docker image as follows

docker run --name bareos_exporter -p 9625:9625 -d ghcr.io/roock/bareos_exporter:latest -dbtype mysql -dsn mysql://user:password@host/dbname

Metrics

Aggregated metrics for all jobs

These metrics are aggregated across all jobs with the same name, type, client and fileset that are in the catalog.

Metrics:

• bareos_jobs_run: Total number of jobs that have run with the parameters from the labels
• bareos_files_saved: Total number of files saved during all backups with the parameters from the labels
• bareos_bytes_saved: Toal number of bytes saved during all backups with the parameters from the labels

Labels:

• jobname: Name of the job
• jobtype: Type indication of the job (B is backup, O is consolidate, R is restore)
• client: Name of the client of the job
• fileset: Name of the fileset of the job

Metrics for the latest job

These metrics are for the latest job with the same name, type, client and fileset.

The whichjob label indicates what criterium was used to select the latest job.

Metrics:

• bareos_last_job_bytes_saved: Number of bytes saved during the latest job
• bareos_last_job_files_saved: Number of files saved during the latest job
• bareos_last_job_errors: Number of errors that occured during the latest job
• bareos_last_job_start_unix_timestamp: Timestamp of the start time of the latest job
• bareos_last_job_end_unix_timestamp: Timestamp of the end time of the latest job
• bareos_last_job_status: Current status of the latest job. This is a binary metric (0 or 1) The value will be 1 only for the status label that currently applies for the job

Labels:

• jobname: Name of the job
• jobtype: Type indication of the job (B is backup, O is consolidate, R is restore)
• client: Name of the client of the job
• fileset: Name of the fileset of the job
• last_selector: Selector used for determining the last job
  • last: The job with the highest start time
  • last_successful: The job with the highest start time that terminated succesfully
  • last_successful_full: The job with the highest start time that terminated succesfully and is a full backup

Metrics for pools

These metrics are aggregates for all volumes in a pool

Metrics:

• bareos_pool_bytes: Number of bytes stored in a pool
• bareos_pool_volumes: Number of volumes stored in a pool

Labels:

• pool: The pool which the volumes are member of
• prunable: true or false depending on whether there are still jobs referencing the counted volumes
• expired: true or false depending on whether the volume has expired or not

Flags

Name	Description	Default
port	Bareos exporter port	9625
endpoint	Bareos exporter endpoint.	/metrics
dbtype	Database type (mysql or pgx for PostgreSQL)	pgx
dsn	Data source name understood by [go-sql-driver/mysql] or [jakec/pgx]	postgres://
job-discovery-days	Number of days to look in the history to discover active jobs. Only jobs that have last run this number of days will be considered for data reporting.	7

TODO

• Write some tests.