netbackup-exporter

Netbackup admin job metrics exporter to prometheus

Getting started

https://sort.veritas.com/public/documents/nbu/8.1.2/windowsandunix/productguides/html/index/#getting-started

1. Download docker-compose.yaml:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/oncall/dev/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml

2. Set variables, use NetBackup API Getting Started:

echo "NBU.APIKEY_TEST=MY_API_KEY_OR_JWT_TOKEN
NBU.MASTERSERVER=https://mymasterserver.com/netbackup
NBU.CACERT=----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----mymasterserver_cacert----END CERTIFICATE-----" > .env_exporter

3. Launch exporter:

docker-compose --env-file .env_exporter -f docker-compose.yml up -d

Overview

Usage of ./netbackup-exporter:
      --nbu.CACert string              CA certificate from the master server using the GET /security/cacert API
      --nbu.apiKey string              API key for NBU the /webui/security/api-keys
      --nbu.http.insecureSkipVerify    controls whether a client verifies the server's certificate chain and host name
      --nbu.http.reqTimeout duration   netBackup api request http timeout (default 11s)
      --nbu.jobsGetFilter string       Gets the list of jobs based on specified filters
      --nbu.jobsLast duration          retrieve the information on the backup jobs behind aggregation time (default 12h0m0s)
      --nbu.jobsPageLimit int          The number of records on one page after the offset (default 10)
      --nbu.masterServer string        netBackup master server base url
      --port string                    listen metrics port (default "9100")
pflag: help requested

Metrics

Metric Name	Type	Description
nbu_jobs_last_hours_ago_total	Gauge	Total number of netbackup jobs in a few hours
nbu_jobs_kilobytes_transferred_total	Counter	The total kilobytes transferred of netbackup job
nbu_jobs_elapsed_time_bucket	Histogram	The elapsed time of netbackup jobs