Bitcoin Daemon Exporter

Export statistics from bitcoind to Prometheus.

Metrics are retrieved using calls to the JSON-RPC interface of the bitcoin daemon.

To run it:

go build
./bitcoind_exporter [flags]

Exported Metrics

Metric	Description	Labels
bitcoind_blockchain_blocks_validated_total	Current number of blocks processed in the server.	chain
bitcoind_blockchain_headers_validated_total	Current number of headers processed in the server.	chain
bitcoind_blockchain_difficulty	The proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.	chain
bitcoind_blockchain_size_bytes	Estimated size of the block and undo files on disk.	chain
bitcoind_blockchain_initial_download	Estimate of whether the node is in initial block download mode.	chain
bitcoind_network_connections_count	Number of connections to other nodes.
bitcoind_network_receive_bytes_total	Total bytes received over the network.
bitcoind_network_sent_bytes_total	Total bytes sent over the network.
bitcoind_mempool_transactions_count	Number of transcations in the mempool.
bitcoind_exporter_collect_error	Error occured during collection.	collector
bitcoind_exporter_collector_duration_seconds	Collector time duration.	collector

Labels

Label	Description
chain	Current network name as defined in BIP70 (main, test, regtest)
collector	Internal name of the collector (mempool, network, blockchain)

Using Docker

You can deploy this exporter using the skreuzer/bitcoind_exporter Docker image.

For example:

docker pull skreuzer/bitcoind_exporter

docker run -d \
  -e BITCOIND_RPC_ADDRESS=172.16.0.1:8332 \
  -e BITCOIND_RPC_PASSWORD=j9JkYnPIxwQgRzG3qAA \
  -e BITCOIND_RPC_USER=bitcoin-rpc-user \
  -p 9960:9960 \
  skreuzer/bitcoind_exporter

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License - see the LICENSE file for details.