As far as I know, this is a design flaw in cloud foundry that you can't get
around. But I don't really know anything about cloud foundry outside of the
fact that it's nearly incompatible with Prometheus.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 2:55 PM Hari Yada <[email protected]> wrote:

> How to have direct access to all instances, I have my app deployed on
> cloud-foundry and hence don't have access to the individual instance
> routes..
>
> On Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 10:17:18 AM UTC+5:30, Hari Yada wrote:
>>
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>>    I have an application and it is scaled to 3 instances. Using
>> Prometheus I would like to scrape the metrics per each instance. for
>> example i would like to know how many number of http requests received per
>> instance.
>>    so i am exposing a metric like this requests_total 
>> {instance_id="xxxxxxx",}
>> 9.0. finally i have specified the application url in prometheus config
>> file.
>>
>> * problem that i am facing*:
>>
>> since the service is load-balanced, when prometheus scrapes it hits one
>> of the instance and fetch the metrics. eg: if prometheus hits instance one
>> , at this point in time it will not have the details of instance2 and 3 and
>> hence there are
>> gaps in the graphs for this scrape interval.
>>
>> to avoid the above situation, i need to use a persistence store to store
>> the metrics for all the instances and when prometheus asks that time i need
>> it fetch from the store.
>>
>> Generally i would like to know what is the recommended way for this kind
>> of situation
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Hari
>>
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