In addition to what Stuart Clar said, I want to talk about one specific question:
> It seems non-optimal to have prometheus scrape 4 different ports on thousands of machines The Prometheus design is highly parallel. It uses lightweight goroutines to manage the scrapes of targets. So it's actually more optimal to have many small targets, vs few large ones. Having many exporters allows Prometheus to scale up the scrape functions and ingest data smoothly. While this seems like it would be a down side, that's mostly a problem for other monitoring systems. For Prometheus, this is working as designed. Of course, there are limits. Thousands of targets per job is fine, but millions would be too much for a single Prometheus server. On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 3:17 PM Isaac Graf <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to prometheus and we are looking to to install it on an existing > complex production system. > It looks like we will need multiple exporters per machine- e.g. > node_exporter, statsd exporter, custom metric exporter, and some machine > types will need other exporters (such as redis exporter). > It seems non-optimal to have prometheus scrape 4 different ports on > thousands of machines. > Is there a better way to approach this? > > Thanks very much. > > -- > 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/fd3691bc-6015-4e56-b894-d13cccf35ad4o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/fd3691bc-6015-4e56-b894-d13cccf35ad4o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABbyFmovRWZ0MtX_UbgWjFCSWgPja%3DVvM1%3DkYgu_%2B%2BzYJZmh5w%40mail.gmail.com.
