graphite_exporter, Graphite Samples That Became Metrics

graphite_exporter on EL 10 from the upstream release (sha256-verified), as a hardened systemd service on loopback; the live test sends plaintext samples over TCP and UDP and reads them back from /metrics with the dotted names flattened. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.

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Provenance

  • SHA-256 checksum
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Functional

  • Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed

Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify

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```

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graphite-exporter

graphite_exporter, the Graphite plaintext bridge for Prometheus, from the upstream release (sha256-verified), as a hardened system service with its Graphite and web listeners on loopback. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.

No package, so the checksum is the whole story. EL 10 carries no graphite_exporter; Prometheus ships a release with a checksum file beside it. The role downloads both and has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's file, then installs the binaries as root's in /usr/local/bin, pinned by graphite_exporter_version.

A service account, a hardened unit, a loopback listener. graphite_exporter is a system user with no shell that owns the data directory and nothing else; the unit runs with NoNewPrivileges, PrivateTmp, ProtectHome and ProtectSystem=strict. The listener is 127.0.0.1:9108 by default, for a proxy that authenticates or a client on the same host; the live test reads the listening sockets and expects loopback only.

Proven by samples that became metrics. The live test sends two samples in Graphite's plaintext protocol over TCP and one over UDP, as a collectd or a legacy agent would, and reads them back from /metrics with the dotted names flattened (probe_other_value 7). A mapping file (--graphite.mapping-config) turns name components into labels; the release also ships getool to check one.

License

Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.

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