rsync-prom

An rsync wrapper (or output parser) that pushes metrics to prometheus.

This allows you to then build dashboards and alerting for your rsync batch jobs.

Installation

go install github.com/stapelberg/rsyncprom/cmd/rsync-prom@latest

Setup example: crontab

9 9 * * * /home/michael/go/bin/rsync-prom --instance="sync-drive" -- /home/michael/sync-drive.sh

Setup example: systemd

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/michael/go/bin/rsync-prom --instance="sync-wiki" -- /usr/bin/rsync --exclude data/cache -av --checksum server:wiki/ /var/cache/wiki

Code example: SSH wrapper

Here’s an example for code which uses the x/crypto/ssh package to trigger rsync on a remote machine and parses the output:

https://github.com/stapelberg/zkj-nas-tools/blob/02d46d718df60c413844d9218f6dd702ad94e5f1/dornroeschen/sshutil.go#L134-L139

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