feat: export new version metric (#12)

Add a new `f2b_version` metric that includes the version of the fail2ban
server and the exporter.
Add a new socket command to get back the fail2ban server version.

src/exporter.go

@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ var (
 		"Total number of IPs banned by this jail (includes expired bans)",
 		[]string{"jail"}, nil,
 	)
+	metricVersionInfo = prometheus.NewDesc(
+		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, "", "version"),
+		"Version of the exporter and fail2ban server",
+		[]string{"exporter", "fail2ban"}, nil,
+	)
 )
 
 type Exporter struct {
@@ -135,6 +140,9 @@ func (e *Exporter) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 		if err == nil && s != nil {
 			e.collectJailMetrics(ch, s)
 		}
+		e.collectVersionMetric(ch, s)
+	} else {
+		e.collectVersionMetric(ch, nil)
 	}
 	e.collectErrorCountMetric(ch)
 }
@@ -273,6 +281,22 @@ func (e *Exporter) collectJailStatsMetric(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *socket
 	)
 }
 
+func (e *Exporter) collectVersionMetric(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, s *socket.Fail2BanSocket) {
+	var err error
+	var fail2banVersion = ""
+	if s != nil {
+		fail2banVersion, err = s.GetServerVersion()
+		if err != nil {
+			e.socketRequestErrorCount++
+			log.Printf("failed to get fail2ban server version: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
+		metricVersionInfo, prometheus.GaugeValue, float64(1), version, fail2banVersion,
+	)
+}
+
 func printAppVersion() {
 	fmt.Println(version)
 	fmt.Printf("    build date:  %s\r\n    commit hash: %s\r\n    built by:    %s\r\n", date, commit, builtBy)

src/socket/fail2banSocket.go

@@ -118,6 +118,20 @@ func (s *Fail2BanSocket) GetJailStats(jail string) (JailStats, error) {
 	return stats, newBadFormatError(statusCommand, response)
 }
 
+func (s *Fail2BanSocket) GetServerVersion() (string, error) {
+	response, err := s.sendCommand([]string{versionCommand})
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	if lvl1, ok := response.(*types.Tuple); ok {
+		if versionStr, ok := lvl1.Get(1).(string); ok {
+			return versionStr, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return "", newBadFormatError(versionCommand, response)
+}
+
 func newBadFormatError(command string, data interface{}) error {
 	return fmt.Errorf("(%s) unexpected response format - cannot parse: %v", command, data)
 }

src/socket/protocol.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const (
 	commandTerminator    = "<F2B_END_COMMAND>"
 	pingCommand          = "ping"
 	statusCommand        = "status"
+	versionCommand       = "version"
 	socketReadBufferSize = 1024
 )