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Monitor custom kubernetes pod metrics using Prometheus
I am using Prometheus to monitor my Kubernetes cluster. I have set up Prometheus in a separate namespace. I have multiple namespaces and multiple pods are running. Each pod container exposes a custom metrics at this end point, :80/data/metrics . I…

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Multiple Targets on prometheus
I've configured prometheus on Centos, version details are follows.
prometheus-2.5.0.linux-386
I've added two targets on the prometheus.yml configuration file, all the servers node exporters are running. Config as follows,
scrape_configs:
-…
user10590355
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Formatting Slack Notification from Grafana
Getting Alerts in slack from Grafana. But it's not in a good format. Is there any way to customize the notification in slack from Grafana?. I am using Node exporter to export the metrics. The dashboard is downloaded from…

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Prometheus (Docker): determine available memory per node (which metric is correct?)
We have been struggling to create a good memory monitoring for our nodes running Docker components. We use Prometheus in combination with cadvisor and node_exporter.
What is the best way to determine the used memory per node?
Method 1: gives in…

tm1701
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How to config default port of Node Exporter
I deploy Node Exporter for monitor my system, but some app in my server used port 9100 , and Node Export Services cannot start.?
How to change another port for Node_Exporter
Thank for reading, this is my fist post
I try on RHEL 8
Jul 24 14:43:11…

Thanh Ngan Nguyen
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Prometheus node_exporter in docker: Host networking vs hostnames
To monitor a small home server, I run prometheus and node_exporter (and grafana, and several more things) on docker (similar to https://github.com/stefanprodan/dockprom). I run prometheus on a bridged docker network. For node_exporter, I have two…

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Prometheus and Node Exporter architecture
I have been 3 days reading about this, even configuring a set of containers to test them, but I have doubts.
I understand that the architecture of Prometheus + Node exporter is based on:
Node exporter knows how to extract metrics. Those are exposed…

user3819881
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How to get overall uptime of a server with prometheus and node_exporter
I'm looking for a query to get the average uptime of the server on which prometheus runs over the last week. It should be about 15h/week, so about 8-10 %.
I'm using Prometheus 2.5.0 with node_exporter on CentOS 7.6.1810.
My most promising…

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Should node-exporter run from host or container?
there is a very simple question: What is best place from where run node-exporter? Directly inside the host or from a container?
What is the pros and cons of both solutions? What is the best practice from the developers? From the usage guidelines is…

Elia
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where can I find the list of systemd node exporter metrics?
I have looked and googled all around , unable to find the list of systemd metrics that node exporter exposes?

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Prometheus get list of all metrics and descriptions
I need a table of all metrics and corresponding descriptions from a prometheus exporter (e.g. node exporter).
Some exporter have such a table in their docs e.g. cadvisor:…

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Prometheus reports a different value for node_memory_Active_bytes and free -b
I'm quite new to Prometheus, so this is possibly a silly question - but here goes.
When I request node_memory_Active_bytes and node_memory_MemTotal_bytes I get:
node_memory_Active_bytes{instance="10.1.4.9:9100",job="node-exporter"} …

Matthew Haworth
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Free bytes vs Avail bytes in Node Exporter
I am using Node Exporter on Ubuntu. I want to calculate the used / free disk space percentage. For the total disk space, I am taking the value of "node_filesystem_size_bytes". But, for the free space, which one of these should I take -…

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prometheus node-exporter on kubernetes
I have deployed prometheus on kubernetes cluster (EKS). I was able to successfully scrape prometheus and traefik with following
scrape_configs:
# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
# The job name is added as a…

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How to extract the running process using prometheus node exporter?
I have downloaded the prometheus node exporter in prometheus official site https://prometheus.io/download/ for my linux system.
If i run the node exporter file , it is running fine and able to see the metrics in 9100 port.
In 9100 metrics , i am…

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