Exposing data for Prometheus

[Antoine Chalons]

Hi all,

I'm planning to expose metrics for Prometheus to collect (scrap) them.

I saw the PromVIEW VIP on GitHub and vipm.io which works in the default Prometheus way : your app runs an HTTP server and Prometheus is configured to connect to it to collect your metrics.

My issue is that I run my app on Linux (Ubuntu) and the NI Web Server is not supported on Linux.

I've seen that Prometheus can also be configured to collect metrics from a file as long as we follow the correct format, so I will most probably follow this path.

 

As anyone done this or anything similar?

[ensegre]

I don't know exactly how your collection looks like and in what the NI Web Server as it is fills in, but as for linux and serving http I have been positively impressed by this: https://github.com/illuminated-g/lv-http-server

In fact I did some preliminary evaluation of it some time ago, and I was planning to build on it for a project which has been delayed. If you look into, I'd be interested in hearing your opinion as well.

[Antoine Chalons]

Good to know, I had missed this one.

If I do find the time to look into it I'll report back, I've used Derrick's TinyTCP package and loved it.