Due to Apple purchasing Dark Sky, this exporter will continue to work until the end of 2021. Apple will most likely absorb Dark Sky into it's ecosystem at which point this exporter will stop working. See more at: https://blog.darksky.net/

Dark Sky Prometheus Exporter

Dark Sky Exporter is a prometheus exporter for weather metrics consumed from the Dark Sky API.

Requirements

• Linux / MacOS / Windows
• docker

Development

• go
• godep
• goreleaser

Configuration

Dark sky exporter can be controlled by both ENV or CLI flags as described below.

Environment	CLI (--flag)	Default	Description
LISTEN_ADDRESS	listen-address	:9091	The port to listen on
APIKEY	apikey	<REQUIRED>	Your dark sky API key
CITY	city	New York, NY	City/Location in which to gather weather metrics
INTERVAL	interval	2m	Interval to poll the dark sky API

Usage

# Export weather metrics from Seattle using binary
./darksky-exporter --city "Seattle, WA" --apikey mi4o2n54i0510n4510

# Export weather metrics from Seattle using docker
docker run -d --restart on-failure --name=darksky-exporter -p 9091:9091 billykwooten/darksky-exporter --city "Seattle, WA" --apikey mi4o2n54i0510n4510

Building from Source

Prerequisites:

• Go compiler

To build from source run make build, other options are below.

# make help

 Choose a command run in darksky-exporter:

  build                       Build local binaries and docker image. Requires `go` to be installed.
  build-image                 Build just docker image.
  install-goreleaser-linux    Install goreleaser on your system for Linux systems.
  install-goreleaser-darwin   Install goreleaser on your system for macOS (Darwin).
  github-release              Publish a release to github.
  clean                       Clean directory.

Deploying to github

Github deployment utilized goreleaser to push to github.

First change the version in version/version.go to the correct tag release. Then run the following:

export GITHUB_TOKEN="<YOUR_TOKEN>"
export DOCKER_LOGIN='<USERNAME>'
export DOCKER_PASSWORD='<PASSWORD>'
make github-release