On 31 Mar 16:54, Stuart Clark wrote:
> The general suggestion is to use a configuration management system such as 
> Ansible to create the configuration file. Equally you can use the different 
> service discovery mechanisms to simplify your configuration too, including 
> the file_sd to pull targets into separate files (which themselves might be 
> build via configuration management tools or scripts that interact with 
> database of record type systems). 


file_sd id probably the way to go. When you add new files, you do not
need to reload the config. When you add a new scrape static config, you
have to.


> 
> On 31 March 2020 15:59:52 BST, Ishvar B <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a prometheus set up which has too many (roughly 50 static
> >configs) 
> >and this number would increase as we have lot of vms still be scraped
> >for 
> >prometheus. The file is becoming huge , especially when some
> >applications 
> >require basic auth. is there any best practice to maintain the config
> >file 
> >as with such huge file some times changes would cause accidental
> >errors.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Eswar
> >
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