Icecast Exporter

Icecast Exporter exports statistics from Icecast into Prometheus.

We use this at University Radio Nottingham for pulling statistics from our web streaming into a Grafana instance which is used to find listener counts in time-series.

Install

Ensure you have a working Go installation (minimum 1.18) and run the following:

$ go install github.com/jb3/icecast-exporter@latest

Once installed, you will find the compiled binary at /home/user/go/bin/icecast-exporter.

Usage

Once you have a binary, you can use the program with the following command line flags:

Flag	Default	Required	Description
url	N/A	✅	The URL of the Icecast status-json.xsl endpoint to poll from.
port	2112	❌	The port to listen and serve metrics from.
endpoint	/metrics	❌	Endpoint to serve metrics from.
interval	15	❌	Timing interval to poll Icecast (seconds).

An example invocation is as follows:

$ ./icecast-exporter -url https://icecast.example.com/status-json.xsl -port 1234

Running in the background

An example FreeBSD rc.d service might look like:

#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.subr

name="icecast_exporter"
rcvar="icecast_exporter_enable"
pidfile="/var/run/icecast_exporter.pid"

command="/usr/sbin/daemon"
command_args="-P ${pidfile} -r -t icecast_exporter /home/joe/go/bin/icecast-exporter -url https://icecast.example.com/status-json.xsl"

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"

Once this file has been edited and placed in `/usr/local/etc/rc.d/icecast-exporter` (and set to executable), run:

# Enable the Icecast Exporter service
$ sysrc icecast_exporter_enable=YES
# Start the Icecast Exporter service
$ service iceast_exporter start

License

This project is licensed under MIT.