The Prometheus community has produced a great number of exporters for just about anything you might need. However, making an intentional choice to deploy a new piece of software in your infrastructure has an indirect price to pay upfront. That price translates into the deployment automation code to be written, the packaging, the metrics to be collected and alerting to be created, the logging configuration, the security concerns, the upgrades, and other things we sometimes take for granted. When choosing an open source exporter, or any other open source project for that matter, there are a few indicators to keep in mind.
We should validate the community behind the project, the general health of contributions, if issues are being addressed, pull requests are being timely managed, and whether the maintainers are open to discuss and interact with the community. Technically...
