I am moving my blog content to mdlayher.com. Please see the updated version of this content at: https://mdlayher.com/blog/linux-netlink-and-go-part-1-netlink/ I’m a big fan of Prometheus. I use it quite a lot at both home and work, and greatly enjoy having insight into what my systems are doing at any given moment. One of the most widely used Prometheus exporters is the node_exporter: a daemon tha