Questions tagged [prometheus]
For questions about Prometheus, an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
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Grafana Datalinks with labels from pods
I m having a grafana instance where all the products in a namespace are listed. There are datalinks to logs and to the product configured. The context root of the product is saved as a label in the ...
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micrometer exposing actuator metrics vs kube-state-metrics vs metrics-server to set pod request/limits
micrometer exposing actuator metrics to set request/limit to pods in K8svs metrics-server vs kube-state-metrics -> K8s Mixin from kube-promethteus-stack Grafana dashboad
It's really blurry and ...
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Is it safe to run Prometheus on public server?
I'd like to provide stats about a website uptime to general public. Is it safe to run Prometheus with default settings on a web server that is accessible from the internet?
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Grafana Status Panel Plugin - genereate status box for each entry from a Prometheus querry
I am trying to create a dashboad out of process_uptime_seconds{namespace="$namespace"} querry from Spring Actuator. and Prometheus as datasource I am trying to build a single stat box menus ...
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Prometheus alert CPUThrottlingHigh raised but monitoring does not show it
I have installed Prometheus to monitor my installation and it is frequently raising alerts about CPU throttling.
The Prometheus alert rules to identify this alert is :
alert: CPUThrottlingHigh
expr: ...
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Grafana dashboard isn't populating any data (using Node exporter)
I'm trying create Grafana dashboard to monitor our infrastructure, installed and configured Grafana, Prometheus.
configured/created datasource is fine, yet every graph is showing NA(not available?)
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Gather resource usage by process in a kubernetes cluster
I am searching for a tool similar to Prometheus + Grafana that gather and record resource usage especially memory usage by process-ID or process-name.
We have two components that are running ...
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How to calculate disk space required by Prometheus v2.2?
We are trying to calculate the storage requirements but is unable to find the values needed to do the calculation for our version of Prometheus (v2.2).
Prometheus(v2.2) storage documentation gives ...
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How to filter label_values in Loki?
I want to create a query variable in grafana using Loki that returns all the possible label values of the label baz such that they only include label values that exist where the label foo equals "...
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Node-centric network metrics are very different from the sum of metrics of the Pods running on that node
Context
I am trying to chart the network bandwidth usage of a node in 2 different manners:
By looking at global metrics for that node
By summing up the corresponding metric for each Pod
To achieve ...
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Unable to get traefik running with prometheus and grafana on docker swarm
I have asked this question at official Traefik Community Forum and I have not received any replies there yet so I am hoping I have better luck here :)
I am trying to run a traefik-grafana-prometheus ...
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Grafana lost access to previous data of prometheus
I'm gathering bandwidth data of some servers using prometheus federation and grafana for monitoring. Last week I noticed that something weird happened to my grafana dashboard, seems garafan can't have ...
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How do I troubleshoot missing data in my Prometheus database?
I have been gradually integrating Prometheus into my monitoring workflows, in order to gather detailed metrics about running infrastructure.
During this, I have noticed that I often run into a ...
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What is data resolution? High-resolution and Low-resolution data?
What is data resolution? High-resolution and Low-resolution data?
I can imagine what it could be based on image resolution, but I am not quite sure.
In connection with TSDB (e.g. Prometheus) I have ...
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What is blackbox_exporter probe_http_uncompressed_body_length exactly?
What is the metric probe_http_uncompressed_body_length exactly? How to reproduce this metric with curl? Why is it 0 at me? Not all my targets are 0, but many targets that return a small JSON document ...
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Grafana K8s microservices availability dashboard based on actuator uptime
I need to create a dashboard that is using micrometer prometheus spring actuator endpoint to show all services for a given namespaces in green boxes or red boxes depending on status, the boxes should ...
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Is it possible/fine to run Prometheus, Loki, Grafana outside of Kubernetes?
In some project there are scaling and orchestration implemented using technologies of a local cloud provider, with no Docker & Kubernetes. But the project has poor logging and monitoring, I'd like ...
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Prometheus two source labels relabeling
Is it possible to change __address__ port if prometheus job name is equal to node-exporter?
Something like in example below but its not working:
- source_labels: [__meta_dockerswarm_node_address, job]...
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Docker Container CPU usage Monitoring
As per the documentation of docker.
We can get CPU usage of docker container with docker stats command.
The column CPU % will give the percentage of the host’s CPU the container is using.
Let say I ...
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Spring boot prometheus - difference between system_cpu_usage and process_cpu_usage
Spring boot reports two statistics when prometheus in place.
# HELP system_cpu_usage The "recent cpu usage" for the whole system
# TYPE system_cpu_usage gauge
system_cpu_usage 0....
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Back-filling prometheus (and related system) metrics?
Projects like Thanos, which are based on prometheus storage formats, seem to say that it is impossible to back-fill data in a prometheus based system.
Can anyone explain why and if there are any ...
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How to append namespace before metric name in prometheus?
I have static config in prometheus.yml
- job_name: 'myjob'
static_configs:
- targets: ['monitoring.api.endpoint.net']
And I recieve various metrics for example cpu_usage, disk_write_ops, ...
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Is there a way to make Prometheus to scrape only the metrics which are present in Grafana?
As a customer of Grafna Cloud, I need to minimize the number of DataSeries that are being sent (remote_write) to Grafana Cloud, to avoid being overcharged for metrics that I don't really use.
This can ...
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Prometheus Alertamanger - how to silence all alerts for a given period during a maintenance?
A work scenario that I can't cover currently is that I want to set a maintenance mode, meaning all alerts received from Prometheus to be ignored, I want to be able to set it through the UI for a given ...
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Initial Configuration: Grafana and Prometheus inside docker and then AWS
I'm a bit of a newbie with this, but I haven't been able to find an explanation. Here's my issue. I'm trying to get Prometheus and Grafana configured on an AWS Fargate instance. I'm testing inside a ...
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K8s to Prometheus apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_seconds_count metric, why does it count more seconds than 86400 for a single day?
In the 2 pictures below I am comparing the metric from K8s apiserver_client_certificate_expiration_seconds_count{job="apiserver"} for my 3 master nodes on K8s 1.14.3. A single day should have 86400 ...
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Reuse Alertmanger Slack Integration into Jiralert template
What kind of changes need to be made to a slack template in order to reuse into Jiralert one? Can I utilize the whole body as it is, can somebody post an example of a working resuse, even for the ...
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Disable creation of labels in Jira?
Following the base instructions I can't create new Jira item through API request due to failing because of trying to create labels. Even if I am using add_group_labels: false it tries to create label ...
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Replace/Consume Istio's Prometheus/Grafana by existing Prometheus-operator
I have multiple K8S clusters that have Prometheus-operator Helm chart installed in monitoring namespace. Each operator consists of Prometheus/Alertmanager/Grafana.
Aside from it I have Istio Helm ...
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Thanos or Cortex - What handles very large scale (say, hundreds of millions of time series) better?
We're looking at a new metrics solution and are attempting to build it in house. So, my question is:
What can scale more effectively / with less pain; Thanos or Cortex?
I understand the general ...
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Add a custom label to a metric when querying from prometheus/prometheus-operator
I am trying to make a view in Grafana that would return the result of node_memory_MemFree_bytes{job="node-exporter"}} < 1000000000 by nodes from Prometheus datasource (from Prometheus-operator ...
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Pometheus-operator - modify Grafana mixin dashboard
Whenever I try to edit the provisioned dashboards I get an error stating that the provisioned dashboard can't be edited. I saw that there is an option to allow changes from the UI, but my questions is ...
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Prometheus-operator - detection of expiring certs failing
I had a situation yesterday where my K8S master api cert has expired and I had Prometheus-operator active in the past weeks, but neither the 24 hours, neither the 7 days alert has triggered. I went to ...
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Prometheus - join series based on the key part of a label
In 1.16 k8s deprecated the label kubernetes.io/role: worker
I had previously been using as a filter to target graphs to specific node role using this in my grafana variables declaration
label_values(...
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How to calculate burn rate for SLOs?
I've read the Google SRE book a few times but I need some clarifications on exactly how to set up the burn rate and understanding how long it'll take to trigger an alert.
Most of my questions are ...
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What is the Prometheus and Grafana ideal setup?
I am just wondering. If I have many environments monitored via Prometheus, what will be the best configuration?
The security and efficiency are already important for on-premise installations but ...
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What is Unit testing in the context of YML configuration Alerting rules?
I read a very short blog posting about Unit testing alerts with Prometheus
Can you explain me why I need unit testing for *.yml? What is the benefit of unit testing for configuration files?
I not ...
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Using Prometheus to monitor Spring Boot Applications in Kubernetes Cluster
I have spring boot powered microservices deployed in my local kubernetes cluster. The microservices are using micrometer and prometheus registry but due to our company policy the actuator is available ...
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How do I set up a Prometheus rule to routinely scrape an HTTP endpoint? [closed]
I'm getting started with Prometheus (Prometheus Operator), and I'm looking at adding it to an existing cluster, where each container has a /healthcheck endpoint, that is going to either return true, ...
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Grafana sometimes can't resolve prometheus hostname [closed]
Scenario
I deploy grafana and prometheus onto EKS cluster (AWS K8s service).
If I use prometheus service's fqdn (prometheus-server.monitoring.svc.cluster.local) as the data source, grafana sometimes ...
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Expose metrics for Kotlin using JMX_Exporter to prometheus
I am trying to use JMX_Exporter for my kotlin code to expose metrics to prometheus in order to show it in Grafana. I have gone through many articles and tried to understand how could it be done. I ...
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How to get hostname from node-exporter in Docker Swarm?
I have setup my monitoring with the cadvisor, node-exporter, prometheus, grafana stack in my clustered environment using docker swarm.
What is the easiest way to get my actual hostnames picked up by ...
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What is a good storage for storing performance results and visualizing in grafana
Intro
I am a tester and need to analyze the results of automated tests (response times and etc.)
Current situation
1) I run performance tests using locust.io
2) During test execution, response ...
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Keeping graphs of terminated Kubernetes pods in Prometheus/Grafana
I love using Prometheus/Grafana to monitor and tune resource usage on my Kubernetes clusters. When pods are terminated, however, the graphs are disposed of it seems.
I am looking for a solution to ...
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Does Prometheus expose the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler's “Current CPU Utilization” as shown in the Kubernetes dashboard?
In the Kubernetes dashboard, I can see for a HPA the following information:
Min Replicas:
3
Max Replicas:
11
Target CPU Utilization:
80%
Status
Current Replicas:
3
Desired Replicas:
3
Current CPU ...
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What is the advantage of using Prometheus over ingesting metrics using logs?
I want to setup monitoring on our environment. I am wondering on what are the advantages of using something like Prometheus for making metrics vs. just using something like the ELK stack for creating ...
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Why is Prometheus not a good choice for data with high cardinality?
I have a background in relational databases and new to Prometheus. I wonder why Prometheus is not a good choice for high cardinality data? Why do I need to use low cardinality data? It's exact ...
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Which libraries generate observability metrics for applications in the cluster to prometheus?
I recently read "Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes" by O'reily and it mentions the RED and USE metrics which are a good starting point for gaining better observability into the system, however I'm ...
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Local Prometheus and Grafana Installations to Monitor a Kubernetes Cluster
We want to start our monitoring off the cluster on a local server. Is this practical and will it be feasible and reasonable to hook local Prometheus and Grafana installations into a Kubernetes ...
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Jenkins plugin recomendation
My company wants to visualize the % of failed/successful deployments of jenkins jobs.
And the way jenkins is arranged complicates the task, each team or project is a folder name and inside the ...
