On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:25 PM Tony Kirk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>   I'm semi-new to prometheus, and I have inherited a large multi site
> setup to learn and admin. This system hasn't been touched in 6 months since
> the person who set up the whole system left 6 months ago. I have been asked
> to replace the ip:port (instance) in the alert body with the hostname.
> While I'm still learning, I haven't come across any easy solution for that.
>
>   nodename is the closest thing I've seen so far, but I can't figure out
> how to pull that key/value out of node_uname_info for this purpose.
>

Chicken and egg problem. How do you get the hostname if the scrape fails?
It's basically impossible. How would `up` know what the hostname is is it
can't scrape the target?


>
>   Anyone have a straight forward way to do this? Or even a not straight
> forward way that I can try to understand?
>

What you need is to have your hostnames added at discovery time. How are
you discovering your targets? That's the straight forward way. Tell
Prometheus the hostnames via service discovery.


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