Ansible Role: Logstash exporter

This role installs Prometheus' logstash exporter on logstash hosts.

Requirements

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

logstash_exporter_version: '0.7.0'

The version of logstash exporter to install. Available releases can be found on the tags listing in the logstash exporter repository. Drop the v off the tag.

If you change the version, the logstash_exporter binary will be replaced with the updated version, and the service will be restarted.

logstash_exporter_arch: 'amd64'
logstash_exporter_download_url: https://github.com/alxrem/prometheus-logstash-exporter/releases/download/{{ logstash_exporter_version }}/prometheus-logstash-exporter_{{ logstash_exporter_version }}_linux_{{ logstash_exporter_arch }}

The path where the logstash_exporter binary will be downloaded and installed from.

logstash_exporter_options: ''

Any additional options to pass to logstash_exporter when it starts.

logstash_exporter_state: restarted
logstash_exporter_enabled: true

Controls for the logstash_exporter service.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: ansible-role-logstash_exporter

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2021 by Daniel Weeber. Heavily inspired and forked from Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.