Netstat is 40% of the metrics on my laptop, many of which
are highly detailed information about IP internals in the kernel.
~300 such metrics on every machine in your fleet is excessive,
so focus on key metrics by default, overridable by the user.
Fixes#515
Signed-off-by: Brian Brazil <brian.brazil@robustperception.io>
* Move NodeCollector into package collector
* Refactor collector enabling
* Update README with new collector enabled flags
* Fix out-of-date inline flag reference syntax
* Use new flags in end-to-end tests
* Add flag to disable all default collectors
* Track if a flag has been set explicitly
* Add --collectors.disable-defaults to README
* Revert disable-defaults flag
* Shorten flags
* Fixup timex collector registration
* Fix end-to-end tests
* Change procfs and sysfs path flags
* Fix review comments
Named return variables should only be used to describe the returned type
further, e.g. `err error` doesn't add any new information and is just
stutter.
Remove all hardcoded references to `/proc`. For all collectors that do
not use `github.com/prometheus/procfs` yet, provide a wrapper to
generate the full paths.
Reformulate help strings, errors and comments to remove absolute
references to `/proc`.
This is a breaking change: the `-collector.ipvs.procfs` flag is removed
in favor of the general flag. Since it only affected that collector it
was only useful for development, so this should not cause many issues.
This catches things like listen overflows, retransmits
and other things that are very useful for retroactive debugging
thus I think it's justified to have it on by default.
Brian Brazil