Install Prometheus Exporter on Linux

You can download the Aerospike Prometheus Exporter manually from the Download page. The release notes have important information about each release. Use the following example to automate downloading versions of the Exporter from the artifact repository.

Base URL

https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/1.24.0

Install on Red Hat systems

x86_64

1. Download the RPM package.

   wget https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/1.24.0/aerospike-prometheus-exporter-1.24.0-1.x86_64.rpm

2. Install the package.

   rpm -Uvh aerospike-prometheus-exporter-1.24.0-1.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

1. Download the RPM package.

   wget https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/1.24.0/aerospike-prometheus-exporter-1.24.0-1.aarch64.rpm

2. Install the package.

   rpm -Uvh aerospike-prometheus-exporter-1.24.0-1.aarch64.rpm

Install on Debian-derived systems (Debian, Ubuntu, or others)

Note

Support for Debian 10 ARM64 was removed from Database 6.3. Support for Debian 10 was removed entirely in Database 7.0.

amd64

1. Download the Debian package.

   wget https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/1.24.0/aerospike-prometheus-exporter_1.24.0-1_amd64.deb

2. Install the package.

   dpkg -i aerospike-prometheus-exporter_1.24.0-1_amd64.deb

arm64

1. Download the Debian package.

   wget https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/1.24.0/aerospike-prometheus-exporter_1.24.0-1_arm64.deb

2. Install the package.

   dpkg -i aerospike-prometheus-exporter_1.24.0-1_arm64.deb

Download the binary

Download the .tgz package containing the binary.

# Download and extract the package containing the exporter binary
wget https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/1.24.0/aerospike-prometheus-exporter_1.24.0-1_x86_64.tgz -O aerospike-prometheus-exporter.tgz
tar -xvzf aerospike-prometheus-exporter.tgz

Install and run the exporter:

# Run the exporter directly using the binary
./usr/bin/aerospike-prometheus-exporter --config ./etc/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/ape.toml

(for systemd based):

# install exporter binary
cp ./usr/bin/aerospike-prometheus-exporter /usr/bin/aerospike-prometheus-exporter

# install configuration file
mkdir -p /etc/aerospike-prometheus-exporter
cp ./etc/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/ape.toml /etc/aerospike-prometheus-exporter/ape.toml

# install systemd service unit file
mkdir -p /usr/lib/systemd/system
cp ./usr/lib/systemd/system/aerospike-prometheus-exporter.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/aerospike-prometheus-exporter.service

# Reload systemd manager configuration
systemctl daemon-reload

Exporter naming conventions

• Starting with Database 6.2 and Exporter 1.9.0, where support for 64-bit ARM was introduced, the Exporter packages use the following naming convention:

Package name

Note the difference between the hyphen -, underscore _, and period . usages.

• *.deb & *.tgz use this construct:
  • aerospike-prometheus-exporter_VERSION-1_ARCHITECTURE.EXTENSION
• *.rpm uses this construct:
  • aerospike-prometheus-exporter-VERSION-1.ARCHITECTURE.EXTENSION

version: 1.24.0, and so on

architecture: x86_64, aarch64 - based on uname -m

• Prior to Exporter 1.9.0, Exporter ran only on x86_64 architecture and used the following naming convention:

Package name

aerospike-prometheus-exporter_VERSION.tgz