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In the prometheus configuration I have a job with these specs:

- job_name: name_of_my_job
     scrape_interval: 5m
     scrape_timeout: 30s
     metrics_path: /metrics
     scheme: http

The script that creates the metrics takes 3 minutes to finish, but from prometheus I don't see the metrics. What is the operation of the scrape_timeout variable?

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Every 5 minutes (scrape_interval) Prometheus will get the metrics from the given URL. It will try 30 seconds (scrape_timeout) to get the metrics if it can't scrape in this time it will time out.

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