Makes sense now. Thanks again Brian. On Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 5:31:12 PM UTC-6, Brian Brazil wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 22:16, Tony Sargent <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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 >
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