Bees Prometheus Exporter

A Prometheus metrics exporter for the Bees deduplication daemon.

Installation

Install directly from crates.io:

cargo install bees-prometheus-exporter

Usage

Basic usage with default settings:

bees-prometheus-exporter

The exporter will start on port 8080 and read Bees statistics from /run/bees/.

Command Line Options

bees-prometheus-exporter [OPTIONS]

• -b, --bees-work-dir PATH: Path to Bees work directory (default: /run/bees)
• -p, --port PORT: Port to bind the HTTP server to (default: 8080)
• -a, --address ADDRESS: Address to bind the HTTP server to (default: ::0)
• -l, --log-level LEVEL: Logging level - error, warn, info, debug, trace (default: info)

Examples

Bind to localhost only:

bees-prometheus-exporter --address 127.0.0.1

Enable debug logging:

bees-prometheus-exporter --log-level debug

Metrics

The exporter reads Bees status files (<fs-uuid>.status) from bees' stats directory, by default /run/bees.

The available metrics are described in https://github.com/Zygo/bees/blob/master/docs/event-counters.md

Additionally, the exporter reads the per-extent-size progress summary.

Metric Format

All metrics follow the pattern bees_{metric_name}_total and include a uuid label identifying the filesystem.

The per-extent-size progress summary is formatted as bees_progress_summary_{column_name}, with the columns datasz_bytes, point, gen_min and gen_max. The extent size is provided as a label.
When point is idle, bees_progress_summary_point_idle reports 1, else 0

Configuration

Note that, by default, /run/bees is root-owned. The exporter requires read access to the directory.
The exporter uses landlock to confine filesystem and network access. Landlock operates on fds, not paths, which means that deleting and recreating the bees directory will not show up in the exporter.

Prometheus Configuration

Add the exporter to your Prometheus configuration:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: "bees"
    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:8080"]
    scrape_interval: 1s # bees updates the stats file once per second

Monitoring Examples

Grafana Dashboard Queries

Deduplication ratio:

rate(bees_bytes_deduped_total[5m]) / rate(bees_bytes_scanned_total[5m])

Deduplication rate in MiB/s:

rate(bees_bytes_deduped_total[5m]) / 1024 / 1024

Files processed per second:

rate(bees_files_scanned_total[5m])

Requirements

• Rust 1.85+ (for building from source)
• Bees deduplication daemon running and producing status files