NAME | DESCRIPTION | METADATA SOURCES | METADATA GENERATOR | INSTALLATION | FILES | PCP ENVIRONMENT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PMDAPROMETHEUS(1)          General Commands Manual         PMDAPROMETHEUS(1)

NAME         top

       pmdaprometheus - Prometheus PMDA

DESCRIPTION         top

       pmdaprometheus is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which
       creates PCP metrics from Prometheus endpoints, which provide HTTP
       based access to application metrics.
       Further details on the Prometheus exposition format can be found at
       https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats 

METADATA SOURCES         top

       pmdaprometheus scans the $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus/metadata
       directory, looking for metadata files (*.json).  These JSON metadata
       files describe the names, types, etc.  of their associated Prometheus
       metrics for a given endpoint.  For example, let's assume the
       following simple Prometheus metric:
       # HELP go_goroutines Number of goroutines that currently exist.
       # TYPE go_goroutines gauge
       go_goroutines 86
       The associated metadata file would look like the following:
       {
         "metrics": [
           {
             "semantics": "instantaneous",
             "type": "uint64",
             "units_str": "",
             "prometheus_name": "go_goroutines",
             "name": "go_goroutines",
             "description": "Number of goroutines that currently exist."
           }
         ]
       }
       Allowable values for each of the metadata fields are:
        semantics=[counter, instantaneous]
              the semantics of the metric
        type=[double, uint64]
              the base data type of the metric
        name=STRING
              name of the metric to be used in PCP
        units_str=STRING
              the dimension and units of the metric which can be parsed by
              pmParseUnitsStr(3)
        prometheus_name=STRING
              complete metric name as used in Prometheus
        description=STRING
              text description of the metric

METADATA GENERATOR         top

       The pmdaprometheus metadata generation helper script helps in
       providing initial content for the (heuristic-based) metric metadata,
       from a Prometheus endpoint.
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus/Generate [OPTIONS]
       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
       too.  Following are the mandatory options:
       -u, --url=STRING
              URL of the Prometheus endpoint
       -n, --name=STRING
              name of the Prometheus endpoint

INSTALLATION         top

       Install the Prometheus PMDA by using the Install script as root:
             # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus
             # ./Install
       To uninstall, do the following as root:
             # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus
             # ./Remove
       pmdaprometheus is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed
       directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the
       agent is installed or removed.

FILES         top

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus/Install
           installation script for the pmdaprometheus agent
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus/Remove
           undo installation script for the pmdaprometheus agent
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus/Generate
           generate metadata describing available metrics based on
           heuristics
       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/prometheus/metadata/
           metadata files for the pmdaprometheus agent
       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/prometheus.log
           default log file for error messages from pmdaprometheus

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize
       the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the
       file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables.
       The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative
       configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).

SEE ALSO         top

       pmcd(1), pminfo(1), pmprobe(1) and
       https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats .

COLOPHON         top

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