On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 05:00:35AM -0800, ehsan karimi wrote:
> I install the mysqld-exporter on Kubernetes and when I scrape it with 
> Prometheus, the instance label will show the pod IP of the mysqld-exporter 
> instance and when we saw the MySqlIsDown alert, I don't know what MySQL 
> instance is for it. I wanna add a label to the exposed metrics to show the 
> host of MySQL.

https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/writing_exporters/#target-labels-not-static-scraped-labels
describes why this is a bad idea.  Use server-side relabelling to give your
metrics meaningful metadata, if you need it.

- Matt

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