If you're monitoring within a single network, but can't make any connections to your targets, PushProx might be a good idea
https://github.com/prometheus-community/PushProx On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 2:01 PM robbe vaes <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay so, we want to have an environment using Prometheus, where we can > monitor our servers etc with a push method rather then pull due to network > security aspects. As of now, we managed to set up collectd together with > collectd exporter for prometheus. This way we can have the clients or > servers push their data to the exporter and have prometheus scrape the data > from the exporter to minimize the amount of pulling that has to be done. > The issue now is, we want to have multiple collectd exporters to improve > HA, but the problem now is that in prometheus, when scraping both > exporters, it takes the data from both. It shows for example for server A > the cpu load but it shows it twice instead of only once because its being > pulled from both exporters. We want to have something like this but it > needs to have a form of deduplication so we dont have the same data twice. > > > Op donderdag 25 maart 2021 om 13:27:44 UTC+1 schreef [email protected]: > >> Can you describe more about what your network topology is exactly? There >> are a number of solutions for dealing with distributed monitoring. >> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:45 PM robbe vaes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to setup a monitoring environment with Prometheus, but it >>> has to be using a push mechanism instead of the standard pull mechanism >>> Prometheus uses. I was wondering what options there are to create an >>> environment like this. It would also have to perfom data deduplication. The >>> main issue is that I don't want Prometheus to scrape the clients itself, >>> but rather that it scrapes a certain location for all the metrics and that >>> the clients push their metrics to that location automatically. >>> >>> Suggestions are very welcome! >>> >>> -- >>> 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/44d081b2-90c1-451f-ac94-efb143fdd0c0n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/44d081b2-90c1-451f-ac94-efb143fdd0c0n%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/3325df03-3ad7-4d24-be81-f0e6c4c5b07fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/3325df03-3ad7-4d24-be81-f0e6c4c5b07fn%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/CABbyFmpsb3JcWApSJeZYBA4Nz%2ByrjHKhZoH0AXhpDHpR6OCG-g%40mail.gmail.com.
