wireguard_exporter

An asynchronous Prometheus exporter for wireguard

wireguard_exporter runs wg show [..] and scrapes the output to build Prometheus metrics. Because wg requires root privileges, this tool must be run as root (or via sudo) or with the following capabilities in both the ambient and bounding set:

• CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
• CAP_NET_ADMIN
• CAP_NET_RAW

Metrics Provided

• Total number of bytes transferred in/out per peer
• Total number of bytes transferred in/out per interface
• Metrics with the info for each connected peer
• Time since last handshake per peer
• Scrape duration in milliseconds
• Scrape success

Installation

wireguard_exporter is a single binary that must be placed somewhere in your $PATH. One can either download 64-bit Linux binaries from the Release Page or one can also compile from source.

Compile from Source

Ensure you have a Rust toolchain installed. Some of the dependencies also require gcc to be installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/kbknapp/wireguard_exporter
$ cd wireguard_exporter
$ cargo build --release
$ sudo cp target/release/wireguard_exporter /usr/local/bin/

Usage

Command Line Interface

USAGE:
    wireguard_exporter [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -a, --alias <ALIAS>...           Add an alias for a given public key in the form of
                                     'pubkey:alias' (separate multiple with commas)
        --collect-interval <SECS>    How often metrics are gathered [default: 5]
    -h, --help                       Print help information
    -l, --listen-address <ADDR>      The listen address scraping metrics [default: 0.0.0.0]
    -p, --listen-port <PORT>         The listen port for scraping metrics [default: 9586]
    -q, --quiet                      Supress output at a level or lower. -q: INFO, -qq: WARN, -qqq:
                                     ERROR (i.e. everything)
    -v, --verbose                    Show verbose output at a level or higher. -v:  DEBUG, -vv:
                                     TRACE
    -V, --version                    Print version information

To run with the default options, and the binary is installed somewhere in your $PATH:

$ sudo wireguard_exporter

Prometheus Configuration

You can add the following scrape configs to Prometheus:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'wireguard'
    static_configs:
    - targets:
      - 'localhost:9586'
      - 'other_host:9586'

    relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: [ '__address__' ]
      regex: '(.*):\d+'
      target_label: instance

Example Metrics

# HELP wireguard_bytes_total Total number of bytes per direction per interface
# TYPE wireguard_bytes_total counter
wireguard_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom"} 19576636452
wireguard_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="wg0"} 1091996152
wireguard_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom"} 3919310388
wireguard_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="wg0"} 2393043528
# HELP wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake During since latest handshake for a peer
# TYPE wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake gauge
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="q2JWEKWfLPU5UjG2Sq31xx2GsSjdhKNtdT/X/tFVyjs=",alias="kevin"} 51405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="2ELWFmGnqhtRpu4r2PUKc0cw+ELtuMPLd6l0KsoCUBQ=",alias="jane"} 88405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="duVVziZbyIiIPoRprisE69K0By198Cn8dPwY5bFecEk=",alias="robert"} 116405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="nwj+Zw49AbYrzUAPzeRf8hhll/1dz8SjoOYZuB+JdT4="} 15296341405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="QF01u5CZhH9+CWcVY9pbsuTu3QsTcSqFvni3VfOiL2s="} 34405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="N5UQp3XbysLBAavUm1Cpv7xxjk99LwJD99z5//PsyCc="} 95405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="QlgHHfYP3aMlRG7d6/Zp9IhUOLrpT5G2GIdODODaUHQ="} 10690033405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="custom",peer="FtUeMGdNxgkVN0G9lpvOc5jtAQQ1m9DpvZPDCUdKBx0="} 96405
wireguard_duration_since_latest_handshake{interface="wg0",peer="bRQZOyOZUvHMhBvCWq2sXO0VsRu6Aq5LCACi/R3AJk8="} 42405
# HELP wireguard_interfaces_total Total number of interfaces
# TYPE wireguard_interfaces_total gauge
wireguard_interfaces_total 2
# HELP wireguard_peer_bytes_total Total number of bytes per direction for a peer
# TYPE wireguard_peer_bytes_total counter
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer=q2JWEKWfLPU5UjG2Sq31xx2GsSjdhKNtdT/X/tFVyjs="",alias="kevin"} 0
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="2ELWFmGnqhtRpu4r2PUKc0cw+ELtuMPLd6l0KsoCUBQ=",alias="jane"} 1240506784
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="duVVziZbyIiIPoRprisE69K0By198Cn8dPwY5bFecEk=",alias="robert"} 1312403276
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="nwj+Zw49AbYrzUAPzeRf8hhll/1dz8SjoOYZuB+JdT4="} 11962543712
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="QF01u5CZhH9+CWcVY9pbsuTu3QsTcSqFvni3VfOiL2s="} 0
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="N5UQp3XbysLBAavUm1Cpv7xxjk99LwJD99z5//PsyCc="} 0
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="QlgHHfYP3aMlRG7d6/Zp9IhUOLrpT5G2GIdODODaUHQ="} 353261276
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="custom",peer="FtUeMGdNxgkVN0G9lpvOc5jtAQQ1m9DpvZPDCUdKBx0="} 2150081456
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="rx",interface="wg0",peer=""} 1091996152
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="q2JWEKWfLPU5UjG2Sq31xx2GsSjdhKNtdT/X/tFVyjs=",alias="kevin"} 0
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="2ELWFmGnqhtRpu4r2PUKc0cw+ELtuMPLd6l0KsoCUBQ=",alias="jane"} 708900060
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="duVVziZbyIiIPoRprisE69K0By198Cn8dPwY5bFecEk=",alias="robert"} 714718444
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="nwj+Zw49AbYrzUAPzeRf8hhll/1dz8SjoOYZuB+JdT4="} 1171658320
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="QF01u5CZhH9+CWcVY9pbsuTu3QsTcSqFvni3VfOiL2s="} 0
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="N5UQp3XbysLBAavUm1Cpv7xxjk99LwJD99z5//PsyCc="} 0
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="QlgHHfYP3aMlRG7d6/Zp9IhUOLrpT5G2GIdODODaUHQ="} 88648
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="custom",peer="FtUeMGdNxgkVN0G9lpvOc5jtAQQ1m9DpvZPDCUdKBx0="} 480852300
wireguard_peer_bytes_total{direction="tx",interface="wg0",peer="bRQZOyOZUvHMhBvCWq2sXO0VsRu6Aq5LCACi/R3AJk8="} 2393043528
# HELP wireguard_peer_endpoint Peers info. static value
# TYPE wireguard_peer_endpoint gauge
wireguard_peer_endpoint{alias="kevin",endpoint_ip="1.1.1.1",interface="custom",peer="q2JWEKWfLPU5UjG2Sq31xx2GsSjdhKNtdT/X/tFVyjs="} 1
wireguard_peer_endpoint{alias="jane",endpoint_ip="8.8.8.8",interface="custom",peer="2ELWFmGnqhtRpu4r2PUKc0cw+ELtuMPLd6l0KsoCUBQ="} 1
wireguard_peer_endpoint{alias="robert",endpoint_ip="127.0.0.1",interface="custom",peer="duVVziZbyIiIPoRprisE69K0By198Cn8dPwY5bFecEk="} 1
# HELP wireguard_peers_total Total number of peers per interfaces
# TYPE wireguard_peers_total gauge
wireguard_peers_total{interface="custom"} 7
wireguard_peers_total{interface="wg0"} 1
# HELP wireguard_scrape_duration_milliseconds Duration in milliseconds of the scrape
# TYPE wireguard_scrape_duration_milliseconds gauge
wireguard_scrape_duration_milliseconds 1
# HELP wireguard_scrape_success If the scrape was a success
# TYPE wireguard_scrape_success gauge
wireguard_scrape_success 1

License

This crate is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• MIT license

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.