Thanks for your response. What would you recommend in a situation with several hundredes or thousands of servers or systems within a kubernetes cluster which should have the node_exporter installed. my idea was to install the node_exporter + prometheus agent. agent scrapes local node_exporter and then remotw_writes the results to a central prometheus server or a loadbalancer which distributes to different prometheus servers. my idea was to user the same configu for alle node_exporter + prometheus agents. For that reason they all have the same job name which would be ok.
However I think I will have a problem because if I use "127.0.0.1:9100" as target to scrape then all instances are equal. Is there any possibility to use a variable in the scrape_config which reflects any environment variable from linux system or any other mechanism to make this instance unique? Brian Candler schrieb am Donnerstag, 14. März 2024 um 13:04:07 UTC+1: > As long as all the time series have distinct label sets (in particular, > different "instance" labels), and you're not mixing scraping with > remote-writing for the same targets, then I don't see any problem with all > the agents using the same "job" label when remote-writing. > > On Tuesday 12 March 2024 at 22:30:22 UTC Alexander Wilke wrote: > >> At the moment I am running the job with name >> "node_exporter" which has 20 different targets. (instances) >> With this configuration there should not be any conflict. >> >> my idea is to install the prometheus agent on the nodes itself. >> technically it looks like it work if I use the same job_name on the agent >> and central prometheus as long as the targets/instances are different. >> >> In general I avoid conflicting job_names but in this situation it may be >> ok from my point of view. >> >> what do you think, recommend in this specific scenario ? >> > -- 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 prometheus-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/706133c4-aa70-4d60-b1a0-dc0d85bcd5een%40googlegroups.com.