Description and Configuration of the Prometheus exporter
The Prometheus exporter is enabled by default and installs an HTTP handler on http://localhost:8888/metrics. To read more about configuring the HTTP listener, see HTTP Listener Configuration.
Example Scrape Config
Add the following configuration to the scrape_configs section inside prometheus.yml of your Prometheus server.
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# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
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# Here it's Prometheus itself.
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scrape_configs:
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-job_name:'vernemq'
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scrape_interval: 5s
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scrape_timeout: 5s
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static_configs:
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-targets:['localhost:8888']
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This tells Prometheus to scrape the VerneMQ metrics endpoint every 5 seconds.
Please follow the documentation on the Prometheus website to properly configure the metrics scraping as well as how to access those metrics and configure alarms and graphs.