# Graylog Monitoring - Additional Metrics (prometheus / grafana)

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-monitoring-additional-metrics-prometheus-grafana/33312>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [August 23, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-monitoring-additional-metrics-prometheus-grafana/33312 "2024-08-23T11:42:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![justeverything](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@justeverything](https://community.graylog.org/u/justeverything)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-monitoring-additional-metrics-prometheus-grafana/33312/1 "2024-08-23T11:42:08Z")

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**1. Describe your incident:**

Dear graylog community, my dashboard in graylog showsthe latest logs with gl2\_rempoe\_ip, application name, timestamp,source (the host that send the log), loglevel etc… after filtering through pipelines and rules. I’d like to have this data exported in a form to use it with prometheus for alertig (e.g. if the number of logs of a host is increasing / reaching a general limit or by loglevel).

An additional metric could look like this - or similar - just to get an idea:

```auto
# HELP gl_host_logs counter for logs by reporting host
# TYPE gl_host_logs gauge
gl_host_logs{ip="192.168.0.5", host="hostname", loglevel="3", facility="kernel" } 42

```

**2. Describe your environment:**

- OS Information: Debian 12, deployment via docker
- Package Version: Graylog 6.0.5, MongoDB 6.0.14, Opensearch 2.12.0

**3. What steps have you already taken to try and solve the problem?**

- Already enabled the built-in prometheus exporter in graylog.conf like
  - `prometheus_exporter_enabled = true` and
  - `prometheus_exporter_bind_address = 0.0.0.0:9833`

- Enabled the ports in docker-compose.yml like
  - `- "9833:9833"`
  - I can access the metrics like [http://server.domain.de:9833/api/prometheus/metrics](http://server.domain.de:9833/api/prometheus/metrics)
  - Also already included this endpoint to my prometheus server like

```auto
  - job_name: 'graylog_exporter'
    metrics_path: /api/prometheus/metrics
    scrape_interval: 1m
    scrape_timeout: 1m
    file_sd_configs:
      - files:
        - /opt/monitoring/graylog_exporter/graylog_exporter_targets.yml

```

- Where the graylog\_exporter\_targets.yml looks like

```auto
 - targets:
    - 'server.domain.de:9833'
  labels:
    category: graylog

```

- But the provided logs do not fit my needs

Note: For now I used the [Grafana Dashboard from asachs01](https://gist.github.com/asachs01/973ca544d9e81861e6fae22013d88703) and modified it a little so it shows my values - seems to be still working, but only covering a small set of metrics provided by the built-in exporter.

**4. How can the community help?**

- Is there a way in graylog to just make additional metrics / more information available in the build-in prometheus exporter? (I believe not)
- If not, maybe there is a way to access the graylog api and write a script to extract the metrics myself - one could just setup a small webserver on another port to povide additional metrics - has anyone done that already / is willing to share some scripts?

Best regards,  
justeverything

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-monitoring-additional-metrics-prometheus-grafana/33312/2 "2024-09-06T11:42:45Z")

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Closed on September 6, 2024, 11:42am UTC

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