Prometheus exporters are used to export metrics from third-party systems as Prometheus metrics - this is an exporter to scrape for GCP spot price termination notice on the instance for Hollowtrees.
Preemptible VMs are Google Compute Engine VM instances that last a maximum of 24 hours and provide no availability guarantees. Preemptible VMs are priced lower than standard Compute Engine VMs and offer the same machine types and options.
Note: reemptible instances require available CPU quotas like regular instances. To avoid preemptible instances consuming the CPU quotas for your regular instances, you can request a special
Preemptible CPUquota. After Compute Engine grants you preemptible CPU quota in that region, all preemptible instances will count against that quota. All regular instances will continue to count against the regular CPU quota.
It can be determined if an instance was preempted from inside the instance itself. This is useful if we want to handle a shutdown due to a Compute Engine preeemption differently from a normal shutdown in a shutdown script. To do this, simply check the metadata server for the preempted value in your instance's default instance metadata.
For example, use curl from within your instance to obtain the value for preempted:
curl "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/preempted" -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google"
TRUE
If this value is TRUE, the instance was preempted by Compute Engine, otherwise it will be FALSE.
The project uses the promu Prometheus utility tool. To build the exporter promu needs to be installed. To install promu and build the exporter:
go get github.com/prometheus/promu
promu build
The following options can be configured when starting the exporter:
./preemption-exporter --help
Usage of ./preemption-exporte:
-bind-addr string
bind address for the metrics server (default ":9189")
-log-level string
log level (default "info")
-metadata-endpoint string
metadata endpoint to query (default "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/")
-metrics-path string
path to metrics endpoint (default "/metrics")
The GCP instance metadata is available at http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance. By default this is the endpoint that is being queried by the exporter but it is quite hard to reproduce a termination notice on a GCP instance for testing, so the meta-data endpoint can be changed in the configuration.
There is a test server in the utils directory that can be used to mock the behavior of the metadata endpoint. It listens on port 9092 and provides dummy responses for /id and /scheduling/preempted. It can be started with:
go run util/test_server.go
The exporter can be started with this configuration to query this endpoint locally:
./preemption-exporter --metadata-endpoint http://localhost:9092/computeMetadata/v1/instance/ --log-level debug