Prometheus Input Package

This input package can collect metrics from Prometheus Exporters (Collectors). It gives users the flexibility to add custom mappings and ingest pipelines.

To scrape metrics from a Prometheus exporter, configure the hosts setting to it. The path to retrieve the metrics from (/metrics by default) is appended to the hostname as below:

Host Configuration Format: http[s]://<hostname>:<port>/<metrics_path> Example Host Configuration: http://localhost:9090/metrics

Use Types parameter (default: true) enables a different layout for metrics storage, leveraging Elasticsearch types, including histograms

Rate Counters parameter (default: true) enables calculating a rate out of Prometheus counters. When enabled, integration stores the counter increment since the last collection. This metric provides better aggregation. This parameter can only be enabled in combination with Use Types.

When Use Types and Rate Counters are enabled, metrics are stored like this:

{
    "prometheus": {
        "labels": {
            "instance": "172.27.0.2:9090",
            "job": "prometheus"
        },
        "prometheus_target_interval_length_seconds_count": {
            "counter": 1,
            "rate": 0
        },
        "prometheus_target_interval_length_seconds_sum": {
            "counter": 15.000401344,
            "rate": 0
        },
        "prometheus_tsdb_compaction_chunk_range_seconds": {
            "histogram": {
                "values": [50, 300, 1000, 4000, 16000],
                "counts": [10, 2, 34, 7]
            }
        }
    },
}

In order to filter out/in metrics one can make use of Metrics Filters Include, Metrics Filters Exclude settings:

Metrics Filters Include: ["node_filesystem_*"]
Metrics Filters Exclude: ["node_filesystem_device_*"]

The configuration above will include only metrics that match node_filesystem_* pattern and do not match node_filesystem_device_*.

To keep only specific metrics, anchor the start and the end of the regexp of each metric:

Metrics Filters Include: ["^node_network_net_dev_group$", "^node_network_up$"]

The users of the Prometheus Input Package have the option of adding their own dataset name, to which the events get added. Prometheus Metrics from different services can be collected by adding multiple instances of Input package. The metrics can be filtered on the basis of dataset name.