# README

Modbus exporter

Fault tolerant exporter which retrieves stats from a modbus system and exports them via HTTP for Prometheus consumption.

you just need Go installed, simply run hte build in the directory as:

go build

To run it:

./modbus_exporter [flags]

The configuration will be taken from a configuration file, the exporter will search a fille called slaves.yml in the same directory by default.

Setting a different file and a different listen address:

./modbus_exporter -config.file="path/to/file" -listen-address=":8080"

Help on flags:

./modbus_exporter --help

Check the examples/ folder to read the information about the configuration file and some examples.

Package glog manages the global loging from every modbus query.

Package lexer manages the imported configuration in order to generate secuences of tokens.