Company
Date Published
Author
Daniel Ma, Software Engineer, Couchbase
Word count
1503
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text provides an overview of setting up a Prometheus Exporter for Couchbase Server, highlighting its capabilities to convert REST endpoint statistics into a Prometheus-friendly format for monitoring purposes. This involves integrating the exporter with Prometheus and Grafana to visualize database metrics on customizable dashboards. The setup is particularly suited for Kubernetes environments using the Autonomous Operator 2.0, allowing Couchbase Exporter to function as a sidecar on each Kubernetes pod to reduce intracluster traffic and enhance redundancy. Security features such as TLS, mTLS, and bearer tokens are also supported to protect data. While the exporter can be run standalone or as a Docker container, it is not yet officially supported in these configurations. The text encourages community contributions to the project, acknowledging prior efforts from the TOTVS Labs and Leansys Couchbase exporter projects, and provides further resources for using Prometheus Operator to simplify the setup of Prometheus and Grafana.