feat(observability): per-GPU metrics for the mixed AMD/NVIDIA fleet

Add a host-process GPU exporter, scrape it on both servers, and graph it
on the host-system dashboard. The fleet has four GPUs across three vendors
of interest (2x R9700 on Dankserver, the 8060S iGPU + RTX 3090 on Dankclaw)
and nothing exposed them until now.

scripts/gpu-exporter.py reads each AMD card's amdgpu sysfs
(gpu_busy_percent / mem_info_vram_* / hwmon temp1_input / power1_average)
plus one nvidia-smi --query-gpu CSV, and emits unified gpu_* Prometheus
families (utilization_percent, memory_used/total_bytes, temperature_celsius,
power_watts) labelled gpu/vendor/model. Absent hardware yields ABSENT series,
never a fabricated 0: the R9700s expose no sysfs power, so they simply carry
no gpu_power_watts line. Both sources are injectable, so the seam runs on a
GPU-less dev box; live-verified on Dankserver's real sysfs.

It runs as a plain user unit (not a quadlet): it must read the host's own DRM
sysfs and shell to nvidia-smi, which a container cannot do without GPU
passthrough. Same posture as signal-relay. The base unit binds loopback; the
deploy drop-in appends the host LAN address, never a wildcard (matching
node-exporter/cadvisor). deploy_gpu_exporter installs/enables/health-gates it
on both hosts and is wired into the planner (both targets), the test-changed
router, and two Prometheus scrape jobs using the node/cadvisor reach rules
(gateway on Dankclaw, LAN on Dankserver).
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Frank
2026-10-20 23:42:26 -07:00
parent b35269bfa5
commit b02647b992
9 changed files with 592 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ SERVICE_ORDER = (
"alloy",
"node-exporter",
"cadvisor",
"gpu-exporter",
"alertmanager",
"authentik-postgres",
"authentik-server",
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ DANKCLAW_SERVICES = {
"alloy",
"node-exporter",
"cadvisor",
"gpu-exporter",
"alertmanager",
"authentik-postgres",
"authentik-server",
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ DANKSERVER_SERVICES = {
"frank-archon",
"node-exporter",
"cadvisor",
"gpu-exporter",
}
# FrankBook-Pro runs the *arr stack + qBittorrent inside a podman machine on
@@ -452,6 +455,12 @@ def services_for_path(path: str, target: str) -> set[str]:
# change to it redeploying alertmanager is the only path that
# reaches it on the host.
_add(services, "alertmanager")
if name in {"gpu-exporter.py", "gpu-exporter.service"}:
# The host-process GPU exporter is installed directly by the
# gpu-exporter deploy on BOTH hosts, so its script and unit select
# that service (target_services then keeps it only on the host being
# planned). Editing the collector restarts the running exporter.
_add(services, "gpu-exporter")
if name in {"frank-zealot.env", "frank-zealot.service", "serve-frank-zealot.sh"}:
# llama.cpp frank-zealot (2026-09-16) keeps its unit, env and serve
# files here; each one selects frank-zealot only. The ik_llama.cpp
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@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ service_is_allowed() {
dankclaw:open-webui|dankclaw:gitea-postgres|dankclaw:gitea-server|\
dankclaw:comfyui|dankclaw:hermes|\
dankclaw:hermes-dashboard|dankclaw:hermes-webui|dankclaw:prometheus|dankclaw:grafana|\
dankclaw:loki|dankclaw:alloy|dankclaw:node-exporter|dankclaw:cadvisor|dankclaw:alertmanager|\
dankclaw:loki|dankclaw:alloy|dankclaw:node-exporter|dankclaw:cadvisor|dankclaw:gpu-exporter|dankclaw:alertmanager|\
dankclaw:authentik-postgres|dankclaw:authentik-server|\
dankclaw:authentik-worker|dankclaw:authentik-outpost|dankclaw:authentik-outpost-ldap|dankclaw:anubis|\
dankclaw:caddy|dankclaw:homepage|dankclaw:seerr|dankclaw:marreta|\
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ service_is_allowed() {
dankserver:copyparty|dankserver:jellyfin|dankserver:calibre-web|dankserver:calibre-server|dankserver:plex|dankserver:tautulli|\
dankserver:prowlarr|dankserver:qbittorrent|dankserver:radarr|\
dankserver:sonarr|dankserver:lidarr|dankserver:readarr|\
dankserver:frank-archon|dankserver:node-exporter|dankserver:cadvisor|\
dankserver:frank-archon|dankserver:node-exporter|dankserver:cadvisor|dankserver:gpu-exporter|\
frankbook-pro:gluetun|frankbook-pro:qbittorrent|frankbook-pro:prowlarr|\
frankbook-pro:radarr|frankbook-pro:sonarr|frankbook-pro:lidarr|\
frankbook-pro:readarr)
@@ -275,6 +275,36 @@ install_signal_relay() {
return 1
}
# Host-process GPU metrics exporter (amdgpu sysfs + nvidia-smi). Not a quadlet:
# it runs python3 from the checkout on the host so it can read the DRM/cgroup
# sysfs and shell out to nvidia-smi. Same two-address bind posture as
# node-exporter/cadvisor (loopback + this host's LAN), so it is never a wildcard.
deploy_gpu_exporter() {
local unit_dir="$HOME/.config/systemd/user" lan dropin i
case "$TARGET" in
dankclaw) lan=192.168.0.143 ;;
dankserver) lan=192.168.0.235 ;;
*) echo "gpu-exporter: unknown target '$TARGET'" >&2; return 2 ;;
esac
mkdir -p "$unit_dir"
cp scripts/gpu-exporter.service "$unit_dir/gpu-exporter.service"
dropin="$unit_dir/gpu-exporter.service.d"
mkdir -p "$dropin"
printf '[Service]\nEnvironment=GPU_EXPORTER_BINDS=127.0.0.1,%s\n' "$lan" \
> "$dropin/bind.conf"
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable gpu-exporter.service
systemctl --user restart gpu-exporter.service
# The interpreter needs a moment to bind after restart (the same race that
# once failed a healthy signal-relay deploy).
for i in $(seq 1 15); do
curl -fsS -m 5 http://127.0.0.1:9401/metrics >/dev/null && return 0
sleep 1
done
echo "gpu-exporter is not answering on 127.0.0.1:9401/metrics" >&2
return 1
}
copy_loki_config() {
run_privileged mkdir -p /opt/loki/config
run_privileged cp shared/loki/loki-config.yaml /opt/loki/config/loki-config.yaml
@@ -2004,6 +2034,7 @@ deploy_service() {
tautulli) deploy_tautulli ;;
alloy) deploy_alloy ;;
prometheus|grafana|loki|node-exporter|cadvisor|alertmanager) deploy_observability "$service" ;;
gpu-exporter) deploy_gpu_exporter ;;
comfyui) deploy_comfyui ;;
*) deploy_compose_service "$service" ;;
esac
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@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""gpu-exporter: unified per-GPU metrics for a mixed AMD/NVIDIA host.
Emits the `gpu_*` Prometheus families the host-system dashboard graphs:
gpu_utilization_percent gpu_memory_used_bytes gpu_memory_total_bytes
gpu_temperature_celsius gpu_power_watts
each labelled {gpu, vendor, model}. The scrape job adds `host`.
Two sources, both host-native — no container, no GPU passthrough:
* AMD (R9700s, the 8060S iGPU, the Raphael display GPU): the amdgpu sysfs tree.
Utilization comes ONLY from gpu_busy_percent — amd-smi reports gfx_busy_inst
as N/A on gfx1201 (verified 2026-10-20). VRAM is already bytes, temperature
is milli-degrees, power is micro-watts. Crucially power1_average is EMPTY on
the R9700s, so those cards legitimately have no gpu_power_watts line; a
missing file becomes an ABSENT metric, never a fabricated 0 that a dashboard
would plot as a real reading.
* NVIDIA (the RTX 3090 on Dankclaw): one `nvidia-smi --query-gpu` CSV. On
Dankserver there is an nvidia-smi binary but no NVIDIA GPU, so the command
fails; that is tolerated and simply yields no NVIDIA series.
Default mode prints one scrape to stdout and exits (the test harness, and any
`service ... --oneshot` one-off). `--serve` binds the HTTP endpoint for
Prometheus; it binds EXPLICITLY (loopback + the host LAN address), never a
wildcard, matching node-exporter's posture on these boxes.
"""
import argparse
import glob
import os
import subprocess
import sys
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
FAMILIES = [
("gpu_utilization_percent", "gauge", "GPU busy time as a percentage of wall time."),
("gpu_memory_used_bytes", "gauge", "Device memory in use, in bytes."),
("gpu_memory_total_bytes", "gauge", "Device memory capacity, in bytes."),
("gpu_temperature_celsius", "gauge", "Package temperature in degrees Celsius."),
("gpu_power_watts", "gauge", "Board power draw in watts."),
]
DEFAULT_NVIDIA_CMD = (
"nvidia-smi --query-gpu=index,name,utilization.gpu,memory.used,"
"memory.total,temperature.gpu,power.draw --format=csv,noheader,nounits"
)
def _read(path):
try:
with open(path) as fh:
return fh.read().strip()
except OSError:
return ""
def _pci_slot(device_dir):
uevent = _read(os.path.join(device_dir, "uevent"))
for line in uevent.splitlines():
if line.startswith("PCI_SLOT_NAME="):
return line.split("=", 1)[1]
return ""
def _pci_id(device_dir):
uevent = _read(os.path.join(device_dir, "uevent"))
for line in uevent.splitlines():
if line.startswith("PCI_ID="):
return "amd:" + line.split("=", 1)[1].lower()
return "amd"
def collect_amd(sys_dir):
for card in sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(sys_dir, "card[0-9]*"))):
device = os.path.join(card, "device")
busy = _read(os.path.join(device, "gpu_busy_percent"))
if busy == "":
continue # not an amdgpu compute node (e.g. a render node w/o metrics)
labels = {"gpu": _pci_slot(device) or os.path.basename(card),
"vendor": "amd", "model": _pci_id(device)}
yield "gpu_utilization_percent", labels, busy
for name, leaf in (("gpu_memory_used_bytes", "mem_info_vram_used"),
("gpu_memory_total_bytes", "mem_info_vram_total")):
v = _read(os.path.join(device, leaf))
if v != "":
yield name, labels, v
temp = ""
for hwmon in sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(device, "hwmon", "hwmon*", "temp1_input"))):
temp = _read(hwmon)
if temp != "":
break
if temp != "":
yield "gpu_temperature_celsius", labels, str(int(temp) / 1000.0)
power = _read(os.path.join(device, "power1_average"))
if power != "": # empty on the R9700s -> metric absent, not zero
yield "gpu_power_watts", labels, str(int(power) / 1e6)
def collect_nvidia(cmd):
if not cmd:
return
try:
out = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True,
timeout=10, check=True).stdout
except (subprocess.SubprocessError, OSError):
return # no NVIDIA GPU / no driver: tolerate, emit nothing
for line in out.splitlines():
parts = [p.strip() for p in line.split(",")]
if len(parts) < 7:
continue
idx, name, util, mused, mtotal, temp, power = parts[:7]
labels = {"gpu": idx, "vendor": "nvidia", "model": name}
yield "gpu_utilization_percent", labels, util
yield "gpu_memory_used_bytes", labels, str(int(float(mused)) * 1048576)
yield "gpu_memory_total_bytes", labels, str(int(float(mtotal)) * 1048576)
if temp not in ("", "[N/A]"):
yield "gpu_temperature_celsius", labels, temp
if power not in ("", "[N/A]"):
yield "gpu_power_watts", labels, power
def collect(sys_dir, nvidia_cmd):
samples = {}
for source in (collect_amd(sys_dir), collect_nvidia(nvidia_cmd)):
for name, labels, value in source:
try:
value = str(float(value)) # normalise; drop trailing junk
except ValueError:
continue
samples.setdefault(name, []).append((labels, value))
return samples
def _fmt(value):
f = float(value)
if f == int(f) and abs(f) < 1e15:
return str(int(f))
return repr(f)
def render(samples):
out = []
for name, kind, help_text in FAMILIES:
out.append("# HELP %s %s" % (name, help_text))
out.append("# TYPE %s %s" % (name, kind))
for labels, value in sorted(samples.get(name, []), key=lambda x: sorted(x[0].items())):
lset = ",".join('%s="%s"' % (k, v) for k, v in sorted(labels.items()))
out.append("%s{%s} %s" % (name, lset, _fmt(value)))
return "\n".join(out) + "\n"
class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
sys_dir = "/sys/class/drm"
nvidia_cmd = DEFAULT_NVIDIA_CMD
def do_GET(self): # noqa: N802 (http.server API)
if self.path.split("?")[0] not in ("/metrics", "/"):
self.send_error(404)
return
body = render(collect(self.sys_dir, self.nvidia_cmd)).encode()
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-Type", "text/plain; version=0.0.4")
self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(body)))
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(body)
def log_message(self, *args):
pass
def main(argv):
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.splitlines()[0])
ap.add_argument("--amdgpu-sysfs", default="/sys/class/drm")
ap.add_argument("--nvidia-cmd", default=DEFAULT_NVIDIA_CMD)
ap.add_argument("--serve", action="store_true", help="serve /metrics instead of one-shot")
ap.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=9401)
ap.add_argument("--bind", action="append", default=None,
help="explicit bind address (repeatable); env GPU_EXPORTER_BINDS "
"comma-list if unset. NEVER a wildcard.")
args = ap.parse_args(argv)
if not args.serve:
sys.stdout.write(render(collect(args.amdgpu_sysfs, args.nvidia_cmd)))
return 0
binds = args.bind
if not binds:
env = os.environ.get("GPU_EXPORTER_BINDS", "")
binds = [b.strip() for b in env.split(",") if b.strip()] or ["127.0.0.1"]
Handler.sys_dir = args.amdgpu_sysfs
Handler.nvidia_cmd = args.nvidia_cmd
servers = []
for b in binds:
if b in ("0.0.0.0", "::", "*"):
sys.stderr.write("refusing wildcard bind %s\n" % b)
return 2
servers.append(ThreadingHTTPServer((b, args.port), Handler))
sys.stderr.write("gpu-exporter serving :%d on %s\n" % (args.port, ",".join(binds)))
servers[0].serve_forever()
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
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@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
# Systemd USER unit: gpu-exporter (both Dankclaw and Dankserver).
#
# Install path: ~/.config/systemd/user/gpu-exporter.service
# Installed and enabled by deploy_gpu_exporter in scripts/deploy-remote.sh.
#
# Per-GPU metrics (utilization / VRAM / temperature / power) for the mixed
# AMD + NVIDIA fleet, scraped by Prometheus. Like signal-relay it is a plain
# user unit, not a quadlet: it runs python3 straight from the checkout (a pull
# updates it with no copy step), a hand-written user unit can be enabled where
# the podman v1 generator's units cannot, and with Linger=yes for dank it starts
# at boot. It reads the host's own cgroup/drm sysfs and shells to nvidia-smi, so
# it must run on the host — a container would need GPU/DRM passthrough for
# nothing gained.
#
# BINDING. The base unit serves loopback only. deploy_gpu_exporter writes a
# drop-in adding THIS host's LAN address (the same two-address posture
# node-exporter and cadvisor use), so the endpoint is never a wildcard. It is
# unauthenticated metrics on the LAN, identical to node-exporter :9100 and
# cadvisor :8080 — Prometheus reaches same-host via host.containers.internal and
# the Dankserver instance over the LAN from Dankclaw.
[Unit]
Description=GPU metrics exporter (amdgpu sysfs + nvidia-smi)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
# Loopback by default; the deploy drop-in appends the host LAN address.
Environment=GPU_EXPORTER_BINDS=127.0.0.1
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/gpu-exporter.py --serve
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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@@ -293,6 +293,14 @@ for path in "${CHANGED[@]}"; do
add_test tests/caddyfile.bats
add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
;;
# The GPU exporter is a host process; its seam pins the collector, the
# user unit, the deployer function, the planner route, the Prometheus
# scrape jobs and the host-system GPU panels — a cross-file contract, so
# the whole seam rides on any of its own files.
scripts/gpu-exporter.py|scripts/gpu-exporter.service)
add_test tests/gpu_exporter.bats
add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
;;
dankclaw/udev/*)
# Host-level udev rules are applied by manual sudo install + udevadm
# trigger, not dispatched as a service; nothing here is bats-testable.