From 4f0bec39bf2d5c5156bc95310ebc2992df54c6eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Dover Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 20:27:45 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] doc/mgr: document ceph-exporter Add stub-level information for the documentation of ceph-exporter. Explicit configuration instructions are still missing from this documentation, and should in the future be supplied. Signed-off-by: Zac Dover --- doc/mgr/prometheus.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst b/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst index 8f69e465eb67..d19de71a08ff 100644 --- a/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst +++ b/doc/mgr/prometheus.rst @@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ Enable the ``prometheus`` module by running the below command : ceph mgr module enable prometheus +ceph-exporter +============= + +``ceph-exporter`` works alongside the Prometheus manager module. The two +components have distinct responsibilities: + +- The **Prometheus manager module** exposes all cluster-level metrics by + default other than Ceph daemon performance counters. However, these metrics + may be exported by the Prometheus manager module by setting the module option + :confval:`mgr/prometheus/exclude_perf_counter` to `false`. +- The **ceph-exporter daemon** exposes only Ceph daemon performance counters + as Prometheus metrics, running on each host in the cluster. + Configuration ------------- -- 2.47.3