YES On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:12 AM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote:
> YES > > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 9:30 PM Julius Volz <[email protected]> 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 >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CA%2BT6YozJK6v%2B9HtYC_n1F7fMH_XPVJqd%2BtU_shAihc70jp%3Dn2g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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/CABbyFmr2e%3DuUhsjPCP6VBLnDUXWMNBv5V68Kou5PAXpKcE32QQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmr2e%3DuUhsjPCP6VBLnDUXWMNBv5V68Kou5PAXpKcE32QQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAB58Z11g67yb1OF7dcSsqd43YuCs2vZ0BxtQU3Gy_7YMCqYmkQ%40mail.gmail.com.
