NPM InfluxDB Log Exporter
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sheya55 · 2023-11-27 23:13

Howdy! I just published the first version of \`npm-influx-exporter\`.
It runs as a lightweight docker container and periodically scrapes
access log files from Nginx Proxy Manager and exports them to
InfluxDB.

Check it out here: [https://github.com/sheyabernstein/npm-influx-
exporter](https://github.com/sheyabernstein/npm-influx-exporter)

This project was written in Python and runs with minimal resources. It
includes caching where possible, i.e. IP address geolocation lookups.
It also draws heavy inspiration from [npmGrafStats written by
smilebasti](https://github.com/smilebasti/npmGrafStats) who built the
[Grafana
dashboard](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/18826-npmgrafstats-
map-dashboard-influx-v2-3/) linked in the documentation.

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hdddanbrown · 2023-11-28 02:10

Pretty nice, thanks! Honestly i imagine that good portion of beginners
use NPM as their reverse proxy, and later when they get more
experienced (and want logs/metrics) they are very likely to move away
from NPM towards for example Traefik (has Prometheus metrics already
builtin) or Caddy etc.