docs: add systemd-exporter findings to monitoring gaps plan

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -79,6 +79,33 @@ These services have adequate alerting and/or scrape targets:
| Nix Cache (Harmonia, build-flakes) | Via Caddy | 4 alerts |
| CA (step-ca) | Yes (port 9000) | 4 certificate alerts |
## Per-Service Resource Metrics (systemd-exporter)
### Current State
No per-service CPU, memory, or IO metrics are collected. The existing node-exporter systemd collector only provides unit state (active/inactive/failed), socket stats, and timer triggers. While systemd tracks per-unit resource usage via cgroups internally (visible in `systemctl status` and `systemd-cgtop`), this data is not exported to Prometheus.
### Available Solution
The `prometheus-systemd-exporter` package (v0.7.0) is available in nixpkgs with a ready-made NixOS module:
```nix
services.prometheus.exporters.systemd.enable = true;
```
**Options:** `enable`, `port`, `extraFlags`, `user`, `group`
This exporter reads cgroup data and exposes per-unit metrics including:
- CPU seconds consumed per service
- Memory usage per service
- Task/process counts per service
- Restart counts
- IO usage
### Recommendation
Enable on all hosts via the shared `system/` config (same pattern as node-exporter). Add a corresponding scrape job on monitoring01. This would give visibility into resource consumption per service across the fleet, useful for capacity planning and diagnosing noisy-neighbor issues on shared hosts.
## Suggested Priority
1. **PostgreSQL** - Critical infrastructure, easy to add with existing nixpkgs module