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Example docker deployment

Example deployment of Grafana, Prometheus and the prometheus-klipper-exporter for collecting and viewing the 3d printer metrics that can be deployed using docker compose.

I recommend running Prometheus/Grafana on a separate host from Klipper. If you are running on a Raspberry Pi or similar device you should consider configuring the docker volumes to use external storage on either a connected USB drive, or network attached storage, to avoid the consistent writes to the SD Card which can reduce the lifespan of the card.

graph LR;
    subgraph docker
        Grafana-->Prometheus
        Prometheus-->klipper-exporter[klipper-exporter:9101]
    end
    klipper-exporter-->klipper([Klipper<br/>klipper-host:7125])

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The docker-compose.yml stack defines three containers.

container	port	link
grafana	3000	http://localhost:3000
prometheus	9090	http://localhost:9090
klipper-exporter	9101	-

Modify prometheus.yml to set the hostname or ip address of the klipper host.

    ...
    static_configs:
      - targets: [ 'klipper-host:7125' ]
    ...

Deployment

$ docker compose up
...
Attaching to grafana, klipper-exporter, prometheus
...
klipper-exporter  | msg="Beginning to serve on port :9101"
prometheus        | msg="Starting Prometheus Server" 
...
grafana           | msg="Starting Grafana" 
...
klipper-exporter  | msg="Starting metrics collection of [process_stats network_stats system_info job_queue directory_info printer_objects] for klipper.home.lan:7125"
klipper-exporter  | msg="Collecting process_stats for klipper.home.lan:7125"
klipper-exporter  | msg="Collecting directory_info for klipper.home.lan:7125"
klipper-exporter  | msg="Collecting job_queue for klipper.home.lan:7125"
klipper-exporter  | msg="Collecting system_info for klipper.home.lan:7125"
klipper-exporter  | msg="Collecting printer_objects for klipper.home.lan:7125"
...

Usage

Prometheus

Check that prometheus is connected to the klipper exporter and collecting metrics.

http://localhost:9090/targets

Graph specific metrics directly in prometheus

e.g. http://localhost:9090/graph

Grafana

Add a data source for Prometheus. From withing the docker compose stack the prometheus container can be referneced directly as http://prometheus:9090

http://localhost:3000/datasources

Sign in as admin using the initial password set in the docker-compose.yml file before creating a new data source.

Use the new datasource to explore the metrics and create dashboards.

Example Dashboard

An example dashboard is included at grafana-dashboard.json. Open http://localhost:3000/dashboard/import and select "Upload JSON file". Select the Prometheus data source and click "Import".

Thanks to @danilodorgam there is also an alternative example dashboard published on grafana.com

• Dashboard 18467.

Known Issues

Unable to resolve local klipper hostname

If you are running klipper-exporter in docker and get a no such host simialar to the below message it is because the container is unable to resolve local network hostnames.

klipper-exporter  | time="2022-10-14T10:03:25Z" level=error msg="Get \"http://klipper.home.lan:7125/machine/proc_stats\": dial tcp: lookup klipper.home.lan on 127.0.0.11:53: no such host"

Modify the docker-compose.yml to add the dns entry for the klipper-exporter with the IP address of the local network gateway, or local dns server.

  klipper-exporter:
    hostname: klipper-exporter
    image: ghcr.io/scross01/prometheus-klipper-exporter:latest
    container_name: klipper-exporter
    restart: unless-stopped
    expose:
      - 9101
    dns:
      - 192.168.1.1