Even though first-party exporters cover the basics pretty well, the Prometheus ecosystem provides a wide variety of third-party exporters that cover everything else. In this chapter, we will be introduced to some of the most useful exporters available—from operating system (OS) metrics and Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) probing to generating metrics from logs, or how to collect information from short-lived processes, such as batch jobs.

In brief, the following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Test environments for this chapter
• Operating system exporter
• Container exporter
• From logs to metrics
• Blackbox monitoring
• Pushing metrics
• More exporters