OVN prometheus event exporter

OVN table events prometheus exporter.

Functionality

Allows to monitor OVN Southbound and Northbound DB activity.

Installation

standalone

Create python environment and install proper requirements:

cd ./ovn-event-exporter
python3.9 -m venv ./venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Docker image

Use attached Docker file to create Docker image

cd ./ovn-event-exporter
docker build -t ovn-event-exporter:v1.0 .
docker run -u root ovn-event-exporter:v1.0 /usr/sbin/ovn-event-exporter.py --h
docker run -p 8888:8888  ovn-event-exporter:v1.0 /usr/sbin/ovn-event-exporter.py --sbdb tcp:0.0.0.0:6642 --bind_port 8888 --timeout 60

Running

Help is contained in the exporter command.

$ ./ovn-event-exporter.py -h
usage: ovn-event-exporter.py [-h] [--sbdb SBDB] [--nbdb NBDB] [--bind_port BIND_PORT] [--timeout TIMEOUT]

Export OVN events from OVN SouthBound Database

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --sbdb SBDB           OVN Southbound OVSDB connection string
  --nbdb NBDB           OVN Northbound OVSDB connection string
  --bind_port BIND_PORT
                        Metrics exposing TCP port
  --timeout TIMEOUT     OVS DB connection timeout