Oh, that makes sense. Also, does this mean the scraping interval logic 
resides in Prometheus?

On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 4:49:09 PM UTC+5:30 Doug Hoard wrote:

> Prometheus can be configured to scrape the JMX Exporter (or any other 
> Prometheus exposition (output) compliant URL.)
>
> On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 2:55:23 AM UTC-4 Moe wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Doug I'll look into using the Rest API output.
>>
>> Yeah, I would need access to List<MetricFamilySamples> returned during 
>> collection.
>>
>> I see that the config file 
>> <https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/config/testdata/conf.good.yml>
>>  used 
>> in Prometheus has a scrape interval defined. Does this call the JMX 
>> collector?
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 5:46:40 AM UTC+5:30 Doug Hoard wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not aware of any code that performs what you are trying to 
>>> accomplish. Do you actually need access to the List<MetricFamilySamples> 
>>> returned during the collection?
>>>
>>> Typically, a Java application would use the Prometheus JMX Exporter (as 
>>> a Java agent) to expose the metrics via HTTP(S). Your application could 
>>> start, pause for a specific period of time, then call the JMX Exporter REST 
>>> API on an interval (or for a specific number of iterations), capturing the 
>>> output, and parsing it.
>>>
>>> Here is a link to the Java class used to parse the REST API output used 
>>> by the integration tests:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter/blob/main/integration_test_suite/integration_tests/src/main/java/io/prometheus/jmx/test/MetricsParser.java
>>>
>>> On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 4:53:28 AM UTC-4 MUSTAJIB MOHAMMED KHAN 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need to create a Java application which collects JMX metrics from a 
>>>> running java process. For this, I am using the JMXCollector 
>>>> <https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter/blob/main/collector/src/main/java/io/prometheus/jmx/JmxCollector.java>
>>>>  class. 
>>>> I couldn't find the option in this to configure it for multiple iterations.
>>>>
>>>> I have a Java wrapper around this to schedule collection after a 
>>>> specified time and for a specified number of iterations. I would like to 
>>>> understand if there is an already existing class that I can use.
>>>>
>>>

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