OK. So if I want to scrape the metrics for 1 day interval, which way is 
better to implement?

On Friday, August 12, 2022 at 2:56:29 PM UTC+8 Stuart Clark wrote:

> On 12/08/2022 06:46, nina guo wrote:
>
> what i want to implement is to scrape and evaluate one kind of metrics not 
> so frequently, I want to adjust the interval to 1d or 2d, something like 
> this.
>
> On Friday, August 12, 2022 at 11:06:15 AM UTC+8 nina guo wrote:
>
>> Hi, I received following error. 
>>
>> - job_name: TLS Connection
>>         scrape_interval: 1d
>>         evaluation_interval: 1d
>>         metrics_path: /probe
>>         params:
>>           module: [smtp_starttls]
>>         file_sd_configs:
>>         - files:xxx
>>
>>  kubectl logs prometheus -c prometheus -n monitoring
>> level=error ts=2022-08-12T03:03:50.120Z caller=main.go:347 msg="Error 
>> loading config (--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml)" err="parsing 
>> YAML file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml: yaml: unmarshal errors:\n  line 
>> 54: field evaluation_interval not found in type config.ScrapeConfig"
>>
> Two things here:
>
> 1. There is no entry called "evaluation_interval" within a scrape config, 
> so that needs removing to clear the unmarshal error.
>
> 2. The maximum sensible scrape interval is around 2-3 minutes, so 1 day is 
> far too long. With a longer interval you will end up with stale time series 
> and "gaps" in all your graphs.
>
> -- 
> Stuart Clark
>
>

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