Hi, I am new to Prometheus and I am trying to write a prometheus exporter to collect some custom metrics from a linux app. The exporter needs to execute a binary to get the required metrics. I saw some simple examples and I am able to get the exporter working. Now I want to make the exporter ready for shipping and want to design it according to industry standards.
1. I don't understand what is a CustomCollector and if I need to implement one for my use case. I couldn't even find a good document explaining when and where it should be used. 2. I have added a timer loop, which collects the metrics at the defined interval, I am wondering if there is a way to manage this interval from the prometheus server. https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters/#scheduling This link says that the exporter should not collect metrics at arbitrary intervals, however it doesn't say how to sync it with the prometheus server. 3. I am writing the exporter in python, is there a standard directory layout/coding practice that I should follow? I went through a couple of prometheus documentation, but they are at a very high level and does not include implementation details and the blogs that have examples are very basic and does not show how to scale and make it ready to ship. Any help and directions would be appreciated. This is the blog I followed to implement my simple exporter: https://trstringer.com/quick-and-easy-prometheus-exporter/ Siddhant -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/4dae42d1-4960-4da3-858a-b9881425c17an%40googlegroups.com.
