Prometheus Gitlab Exporter

Exposes metrics for your repositories from the Gitlab API, to a Prometheus compatible endpoint.

Configuration

This exporter is setup to take input from environment variables. All variables are optional:

• GROUPS If supplied, the exporter will enumerate all repositories for that group. Expected in the format "group1, group2".
• REPOS If supplied, The repos you wish to monitor, expected in the format "group/repo1, group/repo2". Can be across different Gitlab users/orgs.
• GITLAB_TOKEN - gitlab authentication token that allows the API to be queried. If none supplied, the exporter will only have access to public repos. The token must have read_api access.
• GITLAB_TOKEN_FILE If supplied instead of GITLAB_TOKEN, enables the user to supply a path to a file containing a gitlab authentication token.
• API_URL Gitlab API URL
• LOG_LEVEL The level of logging the exporter will run with, defaults to debug

Install and deploy

Build a docker image:

docker build -t <image-name> .
docker tag <built_image_hash> gitlab-exporter:latest