note: this project is a fork of caheredia/poolboy which publishes an html table containing p2pool metrics. it has been forked and adapted to serve metrics in a format digestble by prometheus and renamed to reflect the purpose of the fork.

p2pool-exporter

a prometheus exporter of p2pool metrics from your local monero p2pool, a decentralized pool for monero mining.

installation

build and install from source

this requires that you have a rust build toolchain installed

cargo install --git https://github.com/grenade/p2pool-exporter

download, extract and install a binary release

on linux

curl \
  --location \
  --output /tmp/p2pool-exporter-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz \
  --url https://github.com/grenade/p2pool-exporter/releases/download/v0.2.0/p2pool-exporter-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
sudo tar \
  --verbose \
  --extract \
  --gzip \
  --file /tmp/p2pool-exporter-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz \
  --directory /usr/local/bin \
  p2pool-exporter

run the server

note:

• use ${HOME}/.cargo/bin/p2pool-exporter if you built from source with the cargo install command above
• use /usr/local/bin/p2pool-exporter if you installed a release binary

p2pool-exporter \
    --data-directory /var/lib/p2pool \
    --listen-ip 127.0.0.1 \
    --listen-port 18090 \
    --metrics-path /metrics

⚠️ it is important that the value of --data-directory should match the path used by p2pool's --data-api parameter.

connecting to the server

point your browser at:

• http://127.0.0.1:18090/json
• http://127.0.0.1:18090/metrics

options

❯ p2pool-exporter --help
a prometheus exporter of p2pool metrics

Usage: p2pool-exporter [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

p2pool:
  -d, --data-directory <data directory>  the p2pool data directory [default: /var/lib/p2pool]

http server:
  -i, --listen-ip <ip address>       the ip address to listen on [default: 127.0.0.1]
  -p, --listen-port <port>           the port to listen on [default: 18090]
  -m, --metrics-path <metrics path>  the path portion of the url to prometheus metrics [default: /metrics]