Synapse Exporter for Prometheus

This is an exporter for Prometheus that collects metrics from a Synapse PostgreSQL database. SQLite is not supported.

It is designed to be used with the Synapse Matrix server and provides some additional metrics that are not exported by the internal Prometheus exporter.

Metrics

The exporter currently provides the following metrics:

• synapse_local_users_state: Number of local users by state (active, disabled)
• synapse_local_users_type: Number of local users by type (guest, user, appservice)
• synapse_local_users_moderation: Number of local users by moderation status (active, shadow_banned, locked)
• synapse_total_devices: Total number of devices
• synapse_total_rooms: Total number of rooms
• synapse_total_events: Total number of events
• synapse_federation_destinations: Number of federation destinations (i.e. federated servers)

Installation

You can install the exporter from PyPI. Within a virtual environment, run:

pip install synapse-prometheus-exporter

Configuration

The exporter is configured using a config.yaml. You can create a default configuration file in the current working directory with:

synapse-prometheus-exporter --create-config

Now, edit the config.yaml file to match your PostgreSQL connection settings. Here is an example configuration:

hosts:
  - host: localhost
    port: 5432
    user: postgres
    password: postgres
    database: synapse

Usage

After you have created your config.yaml, you can start the exporter with:

synapse-prometheus-exporter

By default, the exporter listens on localhost:8999. You can change the address in the config.yaml file, or using the --host and --port flags:

synapse-prometheus-exporter --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9899

You can also specify a different configuration file with the --config flag:

synapse-prometheus-exporter --config /path/to/config.yaml

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.