Infra & metrics
Prometheus Node Exporter
open source / community
The canonical Linux host-metrics exporter, plus the sprawling library of purpose-built exporters (windows, cAdvisor, blackbox, SNMP) that make Prometheus see everything.
- Category
- Infra & metrics
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Incumbent
- Popularity
- ≈11k GitHub stars; ubiquitous
The catch
It's a kit, not a product — you run a separate exporter per concern, each its own port/process to deploy, secure and update; the operational sprawl is the real cost.
Monitors
ServersMetricsK8s
Protocols
Prometheus
Built for
SRE / DevOps