Thank you for your explanation of question 1.

在2021年9月17日星期五 UTC+8 上午1:09:12<[email protected]> 写道:

> On 15.09.21 19:45, kaka LI wrote:
> > 1. How to explain why all programs need to start promhttp.Handler() to 
> > expose indicators? Is it a best practice?
>
> It's not just best practice, it is _the_ way how Prometheus collects
> metrics: The Prometheus server scrapes the monitored targets via
> HTTP, so all targets that want to be monitored have to serve HTTP
> somehow. In Go, programs will usually use the Go net/http package for
> that, and that package defines the http.Handler type etc.
>
> In other languages, you use whatever tools are available to serve
> HTTP. In many cases, the monitored targets already serve HTTP as part
> of their production work load. In that case, you can either expose the
> metrics via a separate path (`/metrics` is indeed just a convention,
> any path will do), or you open a separate HTTP socket.
>
> -- 
> Björn Rabenstein
> [PGP-ID] 0x851C3DA17D748D03
> [email] [email protected]
>

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