prometheus/node_exporter
Exporter for machine metrics
The standard Prometheus collector for *NIX hardware and OS metrics — A Go-based Prometheus exporter that surfaces hardware and OS metrics from *NIX kernels via pluggable collectors, listening on port 9100. The README points Windows users to windows_exporter and GPU metrics to NVIDIA's dcgm-exporter, positioning this project specifically for Linux/Unix host monitoring.
Infra & DevOpshost-metricsmachine-metricsmetricsnode-metricsprocfsprometheusprometheus-exportersystem-informationsystem-metrics
Metrics
Relative growth (7d)+0%Growth over the last 7 days relative to size
AccelerationCollecting dataChange in growth pace from the week before
Attention0The three metrics scaled to 0–100 and combined
Retention can be computed 30 days after a repository first trends (it isn't shown until then). See About for how each metric is defined.
Star growth and Trending appearances (last 30 days)
First listed+6★/dayDaily
Sep 30, 2026Oct 29, 2026
Bands mark days on the trending list (darker = higher rank)
Daily trending ranks as a table (1 days)
| Date | Daily |
|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2026 | go #20 +2 |
Created Apr 18, 2013 · First on trending Oct 17, 2026
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Rank within metrics
| # | Repository | ★ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | grafana/grafana | 77,579 |
| 2 | prometheus/prometheus | 66,847 |
| 3 | roboflow/supervision | 51,416 |
| 4 | vectordotdev/vector | 22,776 |
| 5 | openobserve/openobserve | 22,574 |
| 6 | VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics | 17,941 |
| 7 | prometheus/node_exporter | 13,880 |
| 8 | open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector | 7,715 |
| 9 | open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go | 6,586 |
| 10 | DataDog/datadog-agent | 3,770 |