metrics about bird_exporter HOT 9 CLOSED

Steps to repro:

1. start the exporter and bird
2. call curl -I http://<your-url>/metrics
3. curl returns something like

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 14272
Content-Type: text/plain; version=0.0.4
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:03:47 GMT

4. stop bird
5. observe the following error in the exporter log:

dial unix /var/run/bird.ctl: connect: connection refused  source="metric_collector.go:78"

6. Poke the metrics URL with curl to see the following:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; version=0.0.4
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:03:31 GMT

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@czerwonk thanks for ack-ing the issue! Any help I can provide, I'd love to help!

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I have the same behavior
I have bird socket located in the other path. So I specify the path -bird.socket /var/run/bird/bird.ctl but still get the same problem.
curl returns 200 OK, exporter returns level=error msg="dial unix /var/run/bird.ctl: connect: no such file or directory" source="metric_collector.go:78

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I have the same behavior
I have bird socket located in the other path. So I specify the path -bird.socket /var/run/bird/bird.ctl but still get the same problem.
curl returns 200 OK, exporter returns level=error msg="dial unix /var/run/bird.ctl: connect: no such file or directory" source="metric_collector.go:78

sorry, wrong arguments syntax. I've missed = between arg and value

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Hi,
I habe the same Problem. I have bird socket located in the other path. So I specify the path -bird.socket /var/run/bird/bird6.ctl but still get the same problem.
Version: 1.2.5
Exporter log: ERRO[0005] dial unix /var/run/bird.ctl: connect: no such file or directory source="metric_collector.go:84"

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Hi,

i will have a look into this issue.

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@tzockt if you want to specify an bird6 socket path:
./bird_exporter -bird.socket6=/path/to/bird6-socket
if you want to use it for bird6 only, you have to disable the scraping of bird4:
./bird_exporter -bird.socket6=/path/to/bird6-socket -bird.ipv4=false

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@czerwonk
thx it works :)

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I believe this issue may have been closed in err. It appears the resolution just before it got closed addressed @tzockt 's misconfiguration which was not related to the original bug. Unless I missed something.

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