Hi, On 7/1/20 5:25 PM, Thorsten Stork wrote: > I am really new to the prometheus topics, but should evaluate monitoring > functionality > for a system. > > On this system (middleware) we kan provide REST Service, http-Services > or webservices which can deliver some metrics at the current time (no > historic data). > On this system we could not install exporter or other things like > libraries or so. > > How far I understand, Prometheus pulls the data from an exporter via > REST oder http-call, is this right ? Right, it's just a simple HTTP GET request which returns the metrics in a defined format.
> So is the a definition how the service have to look like to simulate an > "exporter" or my complete idea the wrong way ? No need to "simulate". It's a completely valid way. :) Depending on your environment and the programming language, it might be easier to use one of the existing client libraries for that. This documentation describes the format: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/ Kind regards, Christian -- 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/6c4889a1-348b-3dc6-2b73-1169bdf14f9c%40hoffmann-christian.info.
