Circling back on this vote long after its end date: There have been 10 YES votes and no explicit NO votes, so the proposal has passed.
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%2BT6Yowx3vcaAFtD9bC1jHS37S8tAwWAjQ7BD8FQOUKowtYmMA%40mail.gmail.com.
