On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 12:38, Milano Nicolum <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> at the moment I use prometheus-java-client 0.8.1 with out of the box
> HTTPServer to expose metrics on my K8S pods and Prometheus discovery to
> scrape them.
> I just wonder if there is any particular reason to use fixedThreadPool of
> size 5 as default. -
> https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/master/simpleclient_httpserver/src/main/java/io/prometheus/client/exporter/HTTPServer.java#L167
>

It's a hardcoded value, and it seems unlikely that you'd have 5 scrapes at
once so it's a conservative choice.

Brian


>
>
> As the metrics endpoint is usually accessed by prometheus scrape only I
> feel as 5 threads are quite a luxury to have on every pod. I wonder if
> there is any response time based reasoning behind the pool size or some
> situation I still have to experience.
>
> https://github.com/prometheus/client_java/blob/master/simpleclient_httpserver/src/main/java/io/prometheus/client/exporter/HTTPServer.java#L167
>
> While I guess the default HTTPServer could be replace by different
> implementation I just want to know what setup is the most lightweight and
> reliable at the same time.
> Thanks,
> Milan.
>
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