And if that's not it, it's probably that the community string is wrong. The supplied snmp.yml uses "public" as the community string; if you need something else, you need to modify snmp.yml or generate a completely new one from generator.yml
On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 15:43:02 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Your target IPs don't match. > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 4:41 PM 'John Fox' via Prometheus Users < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all! >> >> I've been pulling my hair out trying to get snmp_exporter to crawl my >> Unifi devices. The error that it comes back with is: >> >> An error has occurred while serving metrics: error collecting metric >> Desc{fqName: "snmp_error", help: "Error scraping target", constLabels: {}, >> variableLabels: []}: error getting target 192.168.8.1: request timeout >> (after 3 retries) >> >> Yet I can snmpwalk without issue - for example: snmpwalk -v 2c -c unifi >> -On 192.168.8.17 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 - returning: >> >> .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (9931546) 1 day, 3:35:15.46 >> >> I'm not really sure what to make of this issue or how to solve it. When I >> see a timeout message, I thought to increase the scrape and timeout >> parameters to 5m, however that just results in an Error 500 message in >> Prometheus after about 2 minutes. >> >> Wondering what I'm doing wrong here. >> >> -- >> 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/9d0dc146-cd37-4a7c-8051-e92ba3d47530n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/9d0dc146-cd37-4a7c-8051-e92ba3d47530n%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/dac70c33-e6d6-4efb-b78c-e9bbb198f8acn%40googlegroups.com.
