Textfile Collector Example Scripts

These scripts are examples to be used with the Node Exporter textfile collector.

To use these scripts, we recommend using sponge to atomically write the output.

<collector_script> | sponge <output_file>

Sponge comes from moreutils

• brew install moreutils
• apt install moreutils
• pkg install moreutils

Caveat: sponge cannot write atomically if the path specified by the TMPDIR environment variable is not on the same filesystem as the target output file.

For more information see: https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#textfile-collector