YES. As someone who went through the dark art of configuring SNMP exporter from MIBs and what not, I think not having to run it should even be encouraged :)
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 9:10 PM Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> wrote: > YES > > On 28 May 21:30, Julius Volz wrote: > > Dear Prometheans, > > > > https://github.com/prometheus/docs/pull/1640 proposes to list an > exporter > > for Fortigate devices that uses a REST API. Brian's stance so far has > been > > to only add exporters for metrics that cannot be already produced by > > another exporter on the list at > > https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/, with the intention > of > > focusing community efforts rather than spreading them over multiple > > competing exporters for the same thing. > > > > Since the Fortigate device can also be monitored via SNMP, Brian's > argument > > is that the SNMP Exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter) > > already covers this use case and a more specialized REST-API-based > exporter > > for Fortigate should not be listed. On the other hand, many people feel > > that SNMP is painful to work with, and monitoring via a REST API is much > > preferrable. (Further, and not directly relevant to this vote, the > > Fortigate REST API also reports some information that is not available > via > > SNMP (see > > https://github.com/prometheus/docs/pull/1640#issuecomment-633303249)). > > > > In general I like the guideline of not adding too many competing > exporters > > for the same thing to our public integrations list, but I believe that it > > should only be a guideline. I believe that SNMP is enough of an > operational > > pain that we should allow exceptions for more specific, non-SNMP-based > > exporters like the linked one. It seems that the discussion has been had > > and is laid out in the issue. > > > > I therefore call a vote for the following proposal: > > > > Allow adding exporters to > > https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/ although the > devices or > > applications that they export data for can already be monitored via SNMP > > (and thus via the SNMP Exporter). This proposal does not affect other > > criteria that we may use in deciding whether to list an exporter or not. > > > > The vote closes on 2020-06-04 20:30 UTC. > > > > Cheers, > > Julius > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Prometheus Developers" 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-developers/CA%2BT6YozJK6v%2B9HtYC_n1F7fMH_XPVJqd%2BtU_shAihc70jp%3Dn2g%40mail.gmail.com > . > > -- > Julien Pivotto > @roidelapluie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" 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-developers/20200528201016.GA1187324%40oxygen > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" 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-developers/CAKQV3GGYjsEeEsr%3D0jfknQZmPdF%2B%2BgcaQpgxReVEz9CMAZcc-A%40mail.gmail.com.
