dcgm-exporter

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DCGM-Exporter Overview

Secure your stack with a hardened DCGM-Exporter image freshly-built by Minimus. Minimus images always include the most up-to-date package version for all packages and dependencies contained in the image.

DCGM-Exporter collects GPU utilization, memory, temperature, power, and error metrics from NVIDIA GPUs and exposes them in Prometheus format, so platform teams can monitor GPU health and utilization across a cluster without writing custom collection scripts. It's built on NVIDIA's Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) library, and is commonly deployed as a DaemonSet alongside the NVIDIA GPU Operator so every GPU node in a Kubernetes cluster reports metrics automatically.

Try It Out

Prerequisites:

A host with an NVIDIA GPU, NVIDIA drivers, and the NVIDIA Container Toolkit configured for Docker.

First check that your system has an NVIDIA GPU detected:

lspci | grep -i nvidia

Run the image, exposing the metrics port:

docker run --rm -d \
  --gpus all \
  --cap-add SYS_ADMIN \
  -p 9400:9400 \
  reg.mini.dev/dcgm-exporter

Then query the metrics endpoint:

curl http://localhost:9400/metrics

Technical Considerations

The DCGM-Exporter image provided by Minimus is a slim, security-hardened alternative to the public image from NVIDIA NGC. The images are largely interchangeable, with a few differences as noted below.

DCGM-Exporter built by Minimus:

Runs as root to support required functions in alignment with the public image.
Drill down on the version specification tab to see the default user, listening ports, entrypoint, volumes, environment variables, etc.

The Payoff

A hardened, minimal image that will remain more secure for the long run and accrue vulnerabilities at a slower rate.

See the risk reduction dashboard for a detailed CVE comparison over the past 30 days.
Review the compliance report to see the default hardening and security configurations for the image.

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