The main issue is that I am not able to see the metrics in Prometheus UI. I am unable to understand the root cause.
Am I missing anything? On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 23:44:59 UTC+5:30 Brian Candler wrote: > Aside: you might also want to look at kube-state-metrics > <https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics>, which can give you a > range of pod metrics > <https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-state-metrics/blob/main/docs/pod-metrics.md> > > including the pod start time. Then an expression like > time()-kube_pod_start_time should give you the pod age. > > On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 17:55:20 UTC Brian Candler wrote: > >> The problem is that the filename must end with ".prom", i.e. you need to >> create "apt1.prom" not "apt1-prom" >> >> Also, you need to enable the functionality with a flag to node_exporter: >> >> node_exporter --collector.textfile.directory=/var/lib/node_exporter >> >> See the documentation here: >> https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter#textfile-collector >> >> On Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 17:16:06 UTC Stuart Clark wrote: >> >>> On 28/02/2023 17:12, BHARATH KUMAR wrote: >>> > Hello All, >>> > >>> > I want to calculate the pod age running on every server. I wrote a >>> > shell script. I added this script under the folder >>> /var/lib/node_exporter. >>> > >>> > I created a cronjob for this script to run every minute >>> > * * * * * root bash /var/lib/node_exporter/custom_metrics.sh > >>> > /var/lib/node_exporter/apt1-prom >>> > >>> > I store the above cronjob in the /etc/cron.d folder with filename: >>> > prom-apt1. >>> > >>> > But I am not able to see the metrics I created in Prometheus UI. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > But similarly, I created another shell script file to fetch some >>> > metrics. I followed the same procedure as above. >>> > >>> > * * * * * root bash /var/lib/node_exporter/custom1.sh > >>> > /var/lib/node_exporter/apt-prom >>> > >>> > I store the above cronjob in the /etc/cron.d folder with filename: >>> > prom-apt. >>> > >>> > The metrics which I mentioned in custom1.sh, I am able to see those >>> > metrics in Prometheus UI. >>> > >>> > >>> > Could anyone help me? >>> > >>> What is the contents of those files in /var/lib/node_exporter? >>> >>> -- >>> Stuart Clark >>> >>> -- 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/248cb5ff-0c32-43e6-88cc-e16600e6ed18n%40googlegroups.com.
