Add custom nix-daemon exporter

Allows us to see which derivations are being built in realtime. It is a
bit of a hack, but it seems to work. We simply look at the environment
of the child processes of nix-daemon (usually bash) and then look for
the $name variable which should hold the current derivation being
built. Needs root to be able to read the environ file of the different
nix-daemon processes as they are owned by the nixbld* users.

See: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/query-ongoing-builds/23486
Reviewed-by: Aleix Boné <abonerib@bsc.es>
This commit is contained in:
Rodrigo Arias 2025-04-24 23:51:06 +02:00
parent 82fc3209de
commit 1c15e77c83
3 changed files with 51 additions and 0 deletions

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imports = [
../module/slurm-exporter.nix
./gpfs-probe.nix
./nix-daemon-exporter.nix
];
age.secrets.grafanaJungleRobotPassword = {
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"127.0.0.1:${toString config.services.prometheus.exporters.smartctl.port}"
"127.0.0.1:9341" # Slurm exporter
"127.0.0.1:9966" # GPFS custom exporter
"127.0.0.1:9999" # Nix-daemon custom exporter
"127.0.0.1:${toString config.services.prometheus.exporters.blackbox.port}"
];
}];

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m/hut/nix-daemon-builds.sh Executable file
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#!/bin/sh
# Locate nix daemon pid
nd=$(pgrep -o nix-daemon)
# Locate children of nix-daemon
pids1=$(tr ' ' '\n' < "/proc/$nd/task/$nd/children")
# For each children, locate 2nd level children
pids2=$(echo "$pids1" | xargs -I @ /bin/sh -c 'cat /proc/@/task/*/children' | tr ' ' '\n')
cat <<EOF
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain; version=0.0.4; charset=utf-8; escaping=values
# HELP nix_daemon_build Nix daemon derivation build state.
# TYPE nix_daemon_build gauge
EOF
for pid in $pids2; do
name=$(cat /proc/$pid/environ 2>/dev/null | tr '\0' '\n' | rg "^name=(.+)" - --replace '$1' | tr -dc ' [:alnum:]_\-\.')
user=$(ps -o uname= -p "$pid")
if [ -n "$name" -a -n "$user" ]; then
printf 'nix_daemon_build{user="%s",name="%s"} 1\n' "$user" "$name"
fi
done

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{ pkgs, config, lib, ... }:
let
script = pkgs.runCommand "nix-daemon-exporter.sh" { }
''
cp ${./nix-daemon-builds.sh} $out;
chmod +x $out
''
;
in
{
systemd.services.nix-daemon-exporter = {
description = "Daemon to export nix-daemon metrics";
path = [ pkgs.procps pkgs.ripgrep ];
wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
serviceConfig = {
Type = "simple";
ExecStart = "${pkgs.socat}/bin/socat TCP4-LISTEN:9999,fork EXEC:${script}";
# Needed root to read the environment, potentially unsafe
User = "root";
Group = "root";
};
};
}