netatmo-exporter

Simple prometheus exporter for getting sensor values NetAtmo sensors into prometheus.

Installation

Run docker container

The exporter is available as a Docker image both on DockerHub and GitHub:

• ghcr.io/xperimental/netatmo-exporter
• xperimental/netatmo-exporter

The following tags are available:

• x.y.z pointing to the release with that version
• latest pointing to the most recent released version
• master pointing to the latest build from the default branch

Token file and Docker volume

When running the netatmo-exporter in Docker, it is recommended to store the token file in a "Docker volume", so that it can persist container recreation. The image is already set up to do that. The default path for the token file is /var/lib/netatmo-exporter/netatmo-token.json and the whole /var/lib/netatmo-exporter/ directory is set as a volume.

This enables the user to update the used netatmo-exporter image without losing the authentication, for example using docker compose. It does not automatically provide the same mechanism on Kubernetes, though. For Kubernetes, you probably want a StatefulSet.

Build from source

Because this program uses the "Go Module" feature introduced in Go 1.11, you'll need at least that version of Go for building it.

If you have a working Go installation, getting the binary should be as simple as

git clone https://github.com/xperimental/netatmo-exporter
cd netatmo-exporter
make

If you want to build the exporter for a different OS or architecture, you can specify arguments to the Makefile:

# For 64-bit ARM on Linux
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 make build-binary

NetAtmo client credentials

This application tries to get data from the NetAtmo API. For that to work you will need to create an application in the NetAtmo developer console, so that you can get a Client ID and secret.

For authentication, you either need to use the integrated web-interface of the exporter or you need to use the developer console to create a token and make manually make it available for the exporter to use. See authentication.md for more details.

The exporter is able to persist the authentication token during restarts, so that no user interaction is needed when restarting the exporter, unless the token expired during the time the exporter was not active. See token-file.md for an explanation of the file used for persisting the token.

Usage

$ netatmo-exporter --help
Usage of netatmo-exporter:
  -a, --addr string                 Address to listen on. (default ":9210")
      --age-stale duration          Data age to consider as stale. Stale data does not create metrics anymore. (default 1h0m0s)
  -i, --client-id string            Client ID for NetAtmo app.
  -s, --client-secret string        Client secret for NetAtmo app.
      --debug-handlers              Enables debugging HTTP handlers.
      --external-url string         External URL to use as base for OAuth redirect URL.
      --log-level level             Sets the minimum level output through logging. (default info)
      --refresh-interval duration   Time interval used for internal caching of NetAtmo sensor data. (default 8m0s)
      --token-file string           Path to token file for loading/persisting authentication token.

After starting the server will offer the metrics on the /metrics endpoint, which can be used as a target for prometheus.

Environment variables

The exporter can be configured either via command line arguments (see previous section) or by populating the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	Default
NETATMO_EXPORTER_ADDR	Address to listen on	:9210
NETATMO_EXPORTER_EXTERNAL_URL	External URL to use as base for OAuth redirect URL.	http://127.0.0.1:9210
NETATMO_EXPORTER_TOKEN_FILE	Path to token file for loading/persisting authentication token.	(the Docker image has a default, which can be overridden)
DEBUG_HANDLERS	Enables debugging HTTP handlers.
NETATMO_LOG_LEVEL	Sets the minimum level output through logging.	info
NETATMO_REFRESH_INTERVAL	Time interval used for internal caching of NetAtmo sensor data.	8m
NETATMO_AGE_STALE	Data age to consider as stale. Stale data does not create metrics anymore.	1h
NETATMO_CLIENT_ID	Client ID for NetAtmo app.
NETATMO_CLIENT_SECRET	Client secret for NetAtmo app.

Cached data

The exporter has an in-memory cache for the data retrieved from the Netatmo API. The purpose of this is to decouple making requests to the Netatmo API from the scraping interval as the data from Netatmo does not update nearly as fast as the default scrape interval of Prometheus. Per the Netatmo documentation the sensor data is updated every ten minutes. The default "refresh interval" of the exporter is set a bit below this (8 minutes), but still much higher than the default Prometheus scrape interval (15 seconds).

You can still set a slower scrape interval for this exporter if you like:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'netatmo'
    scrape_interval: 90s
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9210']

Links

• Grafana Dashboard contributed by @GordonFreemanK