Prometheus module

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This module periodically scrapes metrics from Prometheus exporters.

Dashboard

The Prometheus module comes with a predefined dashboard for Prometheus specific stats. For example:

metricbeat prometheus overview

Example configuration

The Prometheus module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Modules. Here is an example configuration:

metricbeat.modules:
# Metrics collected from a Prometheus endpoint
- module: prometheus
  period: 10s
  metricsets: ["collector"]
  hosts: ["localhost:9090"]
  metrics_path: /metrics
  #metrics_filters:
  #  include: []
  #  exclude: []
  #username: "user"
  #password: "secret"

  # Count number of metrics present in Elasticsearch document (default: false)
  #metrics_count: false

  # This can be used for service account based authorization:
  #bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
  #ssl.certificate_authorities:
  #  - /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-ca.crt


# Metrics sent by a Prometheus server using remote_write option
#- module: prometheus
#  metricsets: ["remote_write"]
#  host: "localhost"
#  port: "9201"

  # Count number of metrics present in Elasticsearch document (default: false)
  #metrics_count: false

  # Secure settings for the server using TLS/SSL:
  #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/server/cert.pem"
  #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/server/cert.key"

# Metrics that will be collected using a PromQL
#- module: prometheus
#  metricsets: ["query"]
#  hosts: ["localhost:9090"]
#  period: 10s
#  queries:
#  - name: "instant_vector"
#    path: "/api/v1/query"
#    params:
#      query: "sum(rate(prometheus_http_requests_total[1m]))"
#  - name: "range_vector"
#    path: "/api/v1/query_range"
#    params:
#      query: "up"
#      start: "2019-12-20T00:00:00.000Z"
#      end:  "2019-12-21T00:00:00.000Z"
#      step: 1h
#  - name: "scalar"
#    path: "/api/v1/query"
#    params:
#      query: "100"
#  - name: "string"
#    path: "/api/v1/query"
#    params:
#      query: "some_value"

This module supports TLS connections when using ssl config field, as described in SSL. It also supports the options described in Standard HTTP config options.

Metricsets

The following metricsets are available: