OWAMP (one-way active measurement protocol) to Prometheus

OWAMP needs to be installed on both hosts taking part in the measurement. The owamp-prometheus-exporter should be installed at the destination host. From there when run, the source host of the one-way-ping can be chosen as an argument.

• Configure apt (as user “root”):

  wget -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-jessie-release.list wget -qO - http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-debian-official.gpg.key | apt-key add -

• Install perfsonar suite, which includes owampd and then run the “install-optional-packages.py” script :

  apt update

  apt install perfsonar-tools

• Clone the repository

  git clone

• Install dependencies with pip (using virtual environment is recommended)

  cd owamp-prometheus-exporter

• Run the exporter:

  python3 main.py {SOURCE_HOST_IP}

  SOURCE_HOST_IP should be an IP whose host has the package “perfsonar-tools” installed.

• Setup Prometheus to monitor the owamp exporter

  In “scrape_config” field add the following:

  - job_name: 'owamp' scrape_interval: 10s scrape_timeout: 10 static_configs: - targets: ['10.100.160.45:9101'] # IP and PORT where owamp-prometheus-exporter is exposed

• Reload Prometheus (or kill -H {pid}):

  systemctl reload prometheus

• Log rotation not currently implemented, you can use this ron:

  /usr/bin/find /path/to/owamp-prometheus-exporter/powstream_log_dir -mmin +5 ! -name .powlock -delete