iperf Prometheus Collector

A simple Prometheus collector to provide measurements about network connection throughput for multiple hosts using the iperf3 utility.

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🐳 See releases on ghcr.io.

Note that iperf tests take 10+ seconds per target and are executed sequentially. Results from each test will be returned on the next call to /metrics.

Measurements

See cmd/metric.go.

Configuration

Configuration is via the following environment variables:

Variable	Required?	Description	Default
TARGET_LIST	yes	Comma separated list of host names or IP addresses to run tests against.	n/a
TEST_INTERVAL_MS	no	How often to run iperf tests.	600000ms (= 10 minutes)
TEST_PROTOCOL	no	Test protocol, tcp or udp.	tcp
TEST_OPTIONS	no	Options passed directly to iperf3, e.g. -p 5202 -t 20.	none
LISTEN_PORT	no	Server port to listen on.	9030

Important Note: TEST_OPTIONS

• Do not use these options to set the --udp flag for tests - use the TEST_PROTOCOL=udp environment variable instead.
• Do not use these optoins to change the output format - this tool already sets --json and expects a JSON output.
• These options are passed directly to the command line used to run the test. If anyone else can control this argument they can easily run arbitrary commands, so make sure untrusted users are not able to make changes.

iperf Server

This collector requires that an iperf server is running on each of the targets to be tested and is available on the default port.

You can start the tool in server mode with $ iperf3 -s, but for long-term use you'll want the server to be available all the time. The easiest way to do this is enable an iperf background daemon so that it is started at system boot - information on how to do this can be found in the iperf man pages, or here for Debian-based/systemd systems.

Quick-Start Docker-Compose Example

version: "3.8"

services:
  iperf-prometheus-collector:
    image: ghcr.io/markormesher/iperf-prometheus-collector:VERSION
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TARGET_LIST=my-host-01,my-host-02,12.34.56.78
    ports:
      - 9030:9030