Is there systemd unit state source?

[Javex]

I just discovered vector and am contemplating whether to move monitoring to it instead of fluent-bit. Currently I use promtail & node_exporter, but I'm looking for something new and was playing around with fluent-bit when I came across vector. One important monitor for me is the node_systemd_unit_state metric provided by node_exporter (and which fluent-bit also supports as a drop-in replacement).

For vector, I noticed host metrics exist, but they don't seem to support systemd metrics and I can't find any metrics source for systemd, only journald for logs. Am I missing something? Does this source exist? If not, am I even asking the right question? How would you find out if a systemd unit has failed with Vector?

Thanks!

[jszwedko]

Hi @Javex !

Unfortunately that metric doesn't exist in Vector at the moment. I think your best bet would be to run node_exporter alongside Vector and have Vector scrape it using the prometheus_scrape source. There was some discussion about the lack of node exporter metrics in Vector here: #17734

[Javex]

Thank you! After reading through the linked issues it seems my best choice is to stick with node exporters or use fluent bit since that fits my use case. Cheers!