On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Tony Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for a quick response, Brian. > There is more to the logic than I thought. You are right it was set to the > default of 10s, I bumped it up to 25s and scrape interval is set to 30s. > But I am still a little confused about what the timeout in the module is > for. Would you mind explaining it if you have a minute? > It's an upper bound on the timeout used, in case you want it stricter than the scrape timeout would allow for. Brian > I really appreciate your time and expertise. > > On Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 3:05:48 PM UTC-6, Brian Brazil wrote: >> >> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 21:55, Tony Sargent <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I wanted to find out why I can't update the timeout for a module. I have >>> some slow endpoints that need 30s+ timeout but I can't seem to update the >>> default value of 10s no matter what value I put into the timeout. I am >>> running the latest Blackbox version ( 0.17.0) >>> Here is my Module: >>> >>> # --------------------- Generic HTTP(GET) -----------------------------# >>> http_generic_2XX: >>> prober: http >>> timeout: 60s >>> http: >>> preferred_ip_protocol: ip4 >>> method: GET >>> valid_http_versions: ["HTTP/1.1", "HTTP/2"] >>> valid_status_codes: [200] >>> no_follow_redirects: false >>> headers: >>> Accept-Language: en-US >>> >>> And the logs for that module (or any module) show the following: >>> >>> level=info msg="Beginning probe" probe=http timeout_seconds=9.5 >>> >>> >> I presume that your scrape timeout is 10s, which the blackbox exporter >> learns from a scrape header and thus (with a bit of slack) limits the >> timeout to that value so that it can get a result back to Prometheus in >> time. Try increasing your scrape timeout/interval. >> >> Brian >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you in advance. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Prometheus Users" 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-users/b05055ae-a5d7-44e8-862d-f371aa9a0242o%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/b05055ae-a5d7-44e8-862d-f371aa9a0242o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> Brian Brazil >> www.robustperception.io >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" 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-users/2641f94e-7d0d-4504-9f15-5b0cbf041438o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/2641f94e-7d0d-4504-9f15-5b0cbf041438o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Brian Brazil www.robustperception.io -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" 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-users/CAHJKeLrG8qB8u3B1MOWSZS51pWcoExpfCYh4tVgiA90y%3DsG0Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
