GitHub Downloads Prometheus Exporter with Grafana Dashboard

A lightweight, bash-based Prometheus exporter for GitHub repository release download statistics. This exporter uses only bash, curl, jq, and socat to provide comprehensive download metrics for monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

Features

• Pure Bash Implementation: No external dependencies except socat, curl, and jq
• Repository-Level Metrics: Exports GitHub download statistics including:
  • Total download counts per repository
  • Repository release and asset counts
  • GitHub API rate limit status
• Regex-Based Asset Filtering: Filter assets using regular expressions
• Multi-Repository Monitoring: Monitor multiple specified repositories simultaneously
• HTTP Server: Built-in HTTP server using socat for serving metrics
• Rate Limiting: Configurable delays between API calls to avoid rate limits
• Systemd Integration: Ready-to-use systemd service file
• GitHub Enterprise Support: Works with GitHub Enterprise instances

Github Repo