Remove use of cgroups

Remove the use of cgroups from this exporter. This fuctionality overlaps too much with cAdvisor and is not systemd specific. Signed-off-by: SuperQ <[email protected]>
prometheus-community · Oct 29, 2023 · b7ffaaf · b7ffaaf
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Take a look at `examples` for daemonset manifests for Kubernetes.
 
 # User privilleges
 
-User needs to access systemd dbus, typically exporter needs to see node's `/proc`, `/sys/fs/cgroup` to work.
+User needs to access systemd dbus, typically exporter needs to see node's `/proc` to work.
 
 # Metrics
 

diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.14.0
 	github.com/prometheus/common v0.42.0
 	github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit v0.10.0
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.7.0
 )
 
 require (
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/net v0.9.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.6.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.1.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.7.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.9.0 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.7 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.28.1 // indirect

diff --git a/systemd/cgroups.go b/systemd/cgroups.go