Monitor user unit services

[Lusitaniae]

In some cases I want to monitor systemd services setup as a user unit

sudo su -l user1

systemctl status --user app1

checking the systemd status from outside won't work

[newskooler]

I have the same issue and I struggle to get it working :( i am running systemd exporter as root and expect it to get all metric for root and all users.

[Lusitaniae]

I end up making systemd-exporter run in the same user as the service being monitored

and adding

--systemd.collector.user

[gsaslis]

I was able to get systemd_exporter exporting metrics about user systemd services (which, in my case, are other podman quadlets) with the following podman quadlet (1001 is the id of the user these are all running under) :

$ cat ~/.config/containers/systemd/systemd_exporter.container

[Container]
ContainerName=systemd_exporter
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001
Exec=--log.level=info --systemd.collector.user --systemd.collector.enable-restart-count --systemd.collector.enable-ip-accounting --systemd.collector.unit-include=woodpecker-server.service|woodpecker-agent.service|grafana.service|minio.service|prometheus.service|gateway.service|alertmanager.service|loki.*.service|radicle.*.service
Group=1001
Image=quay.io/prometheuscommunity/systemd-exporter:main
LogDriver=journald
PublishPort=9668:9558
User=1001
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1001,gid=1001
Volume=/proc:/host/proc:ro
Volume=/run/systemd:/run/systemd:ro
Volume=/run/user/1001:/run/user/1001:ro
PodmanArgs=--restart on-failure
AutoUpdate=local
[Unit]
After=podman-user-wait-network-online.service

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target