Prometheus Exporter for MSI Afterburner

Export metrics from MSI Afterburner, any metric, to prometheus.

Pre requisites

You need MSI Afterburner Remote Server running on the computer with MSI Afterburner, this application allow the metrics to be queried via an API.

You can click on the above link or check in MSI Afterburner Page for the download. Just download it, unzip and run it.

The afterburner-exporter doesn't need to be on the same computer, it can be in any computer, although it is very lightweight and barely consume any resource, so if you run it alongside your gaming computer it won't affect performance.

Configuration Parameters

You can pass these parameters as arguments:

Example:

afterburner-exporter host=192.168.1.32 port=1082 listen-address=0.0.0.0:9090 metrics-endpoint=/custom/metrics

Parameter	Default	Description
host	127.0.0.1	The host of the computer running MSI Afterburner Server
port	82	The port of the MSI Afterburner Server
username	MSIAfterburner	Username to authenticate in MSI Afterburner Server, should be MSIAfterburner unless a new version changes it.
password	17cc95b4017d496f82	Password to authenticate in MSI Afterburner Server, it is fixed unless you change it in the config files.
listen-address	0.0.0.0:8080	Address and port where this app will listen to request.
metrics-endpoint	/metrics	Endpoint which the metrics will be available to be scrapped by Prometheus.

Docker images

You can also use it via docker:

docker container run --name afterburner-exporter -p 8080:8080 kennedyoliveira/afterburner-exporter

There are images built for the following architectures:

- linux/amd64
- linux/i386
- linux/arm64
- linux/arm/v7

Given the arm archs, you can use it on a raspberry pi or similar arm hardware.

Build

To build just clone the project and run:

make build

To cross compile for the different platforms use:

make compile

For other additional options check the Makefile

TODO

• Allow blacklist from config
• Allow gpu regex from config
• Configuration from environment variables