ClamAV Exporter

Export ClamAV daemon stats via a TCP socket to Prometheus.

To run it:

make
./clamav_exporter [flags]

Exported metrics

Metric	Meaning	Labels
clamav_up	Was the last scrape successful.
clamav_db_version	Currently installed ClamAV Virus Database version.
clamav_db_timestamp_seconds	Unix timestamp of the ClamAV Virus Database build time.
clamav_pool_state	State of the thread pool.	index, primary
clamav_pool_live_threads	Number of live threads in the pool.	index, primary
clamav_pool_idle_threads	Number of idle threads in the pool.	index, primary
clamav_pool_max_threads	Maximum number of threads in the pool.	index, primary
clamav_pool_idle_timeout_threads	Number of idle timeout threads in the pool.	index, primary
clamav_pool_queue_length	Number of items in the pool queue.	index, primary
clamav_memory_heap_bytes	Number of bytes allocated on the heap.
clamav_memory_mmap_bytes	Number of bytes currently allocated using mmap.
clamav_memory_used_bytes	Number of bytes used by in-use allocations.
clamav_memory_free_bytes	Number of bytes in free blocks.
clamav_memory_releasable_bytes	Number of bytes releasable at the heap.
clamav_memory_pools_used_bytes	Number of bytes currently used by all pools.
clamav_memory_pools_total_bytes	Number of bytes available to all pools.

Pool state mapping

Name	State value
INVALID	0
VALID	1
EXIT	2

Flags

./clamav_exporter --help

• clamav.address: ClamAV daemon socket address. Example: tcp://127.0.0.1:3310.
• clamav.timeout: ClamAV daemon socket timeout.
• clamav.retries: ClamAV daemon socket connect retries. 0 by default.
• web.listen-address: Address to listen on for web interface and telemetry.
• web.telemetry-path: Path under which to expose metrics.
• log.level: Logging level. info by default.
• log.format: Set the log target and format. Example: logger:syslog?appname=bob&local=7 or logger:stdout?json=true.

TLS and basic authentication

The clamav_exporter supports TLS and basic authentication. To use TLS and/or basic authentication, you need to pass a configuration file using the --web.config.file parameter. The format of the file is described in the exporter-toolkit repository.