Hey Julius,
I meant alerting when the hosts running Prometheus in Agent Mode go down.
Turned out to be quite simple:
*absent(up{prometheus_agent="true",hostname="hostname"})*
Not sure what I got so confused about anymore.
Thanks)
Regards,
Gabriel
On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 11:04 PM Julius Volz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you mean monitoring the host that the Agent-Mode Prometheus is running
> on? If that is the case, you would monitor it like any other host by
> deploying the Node Exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter)
> on it, scraping it from another Prometheus server, and then having some
> alert based on the "up" metric for that Node Exporter job. See also
> https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/node-exporter/.
>
> Or do you mean configuring alerting rules in a Prometheus server that is
> running in Agent mode? In that case, that's not possible, since an
> Agent-mode Prometheus server does not have a full local storage and
> querying+rule engine. You would need to run a full Prometheus server for
> that.
>
> Regards,
> Julius
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 8:37 AM Clima Gabriel <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey y'all,
>>
>> Has anyone been able to figure out how to create a Host Down alert for a
>> host that is running Prometheus in Agent mode?
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