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Prometheus Exporter

An output plugin to expose Prometheus Metrics

The prometheus exporter allows you to take metrics from Fluent Bit and expose them such that a Prometheus instance can scrape them.

Important Note: The prometheus exporter only works with metric plugins, such as Node Exporter Metrics

Key

Description

Default

Getting Started

The Prometheus exporter only works with metrics captured from metric plugins. In the following example, host metrics are captured by the node exporter metrics plugin and then are routed to prometheus exporter. Within the output plugin two labels are added app="fluent-bit"and color="blue"

# Node Exporter Metrics + Prometheus Exporter
# -------------------------------------------
# The following example collect host metrics on Linux and expose
# them through a Prometheus HTTP end-point.
#
# After starting the service try it with:
#
# $ curl http://127.0.0.1:2021/metrics
#
[SERVICE]
    flush           1
    log_level       info

[INPUT]
    name            node_exporter_metrics
    tag             node_metrics
    scrape_interval 2

[OUTPUT]
    name            prometheus_exporter
    match           node_metrics
    host            0.0.0.0
    port            2021
    # add user-defined labels
    add_label       app fluent-bit
    add_label       color blue