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This role installs Prometheus AWS CloudWatch Exporter.

Prometheus AWS CloudWatch Exporter makes available AWS CloudWatch metrics for collection by Prometheus server.

For more information about Prometheus AWS CloudWatch Exporter please visit: http://github.com/prometheus/cloudwatch_exporter.

For more information about Prometheus Server please visit: https://prometheus.io.

This role is designed to work with merge "hash_behaviour". Make sure your ansible.cfg contains these settings

[defaults]
hash_behaviour = merge

This role will install sansible.users_and_groups for managing prometheus_cloudwatch_exporter user and sansible.java to install Java, which the Prometheus AWS CloudWatch Exporter requires to run.

To install run ansible-galaxy install sansible.prometheus_cloudwatch_exporter or add this to your roles.yml.

- name: sansible.prometheus_cloudwatch_exporter
  version: v1.0

and run ansible-galaxy install -p ./roles -r roles.yml

This role uses tags: build and configure

• build - Installs Prometheus AWS CloudWatch Exporter and all it's dependencies.
• configure - Configures Prometheus AWS CloudWatch Exporter.

Simply include the role in your playbook.

Default exporter port: 9106

- name: Install and configure prometheus_cloudwatch_exporter
  hosts: "somehost"
  
  roles:
    - role: sansible.prometheus_cloudwatch_exporter
      sansible_prometheus_cloudwatch_exporter:
        config:
          region: eu-west-1
          metrics:
            - aws_namespace: AWS/ELB
              aws_metric_name: RequestCount
              aws_dimensions: [AvailabilityZone, LoadBalancerName]
              aws_dimension_select:
                LoadBalancerName: [myLB]
              aws_statistics: [Sum]