How to add etcd service to prometheus conifg?

[zard14]

I referred to an article on how to enable the Prometheus configuration feature because I wanted to register an etcd service with Prometheus, but it was not effective.

Extending PMM's Prometheus Configuration

Eventually, I logged into the container and modified /etc/victoriametrics-promscrape.yml.

After restarting the container, the successful registration of the etcd service could be observed at the following URL

http://[pmm ip]/prometheus/targets.

However, at the beginning of this config file, I noticed a comment:

#Managed by pmm-managed. DO NOT EDIT.

I understand that this method might not be the standard way to do it.

1. If there is any other way to achieve this requirement?

2. Is this method of registering a service, as opposed to using the pmm-admin tool to push data, considered as the docker server actively pulling data?

Thank you for your generous guidance.

[Roma_Novikov]

Hi @zard14
The best option is to use External Monitoring External Services - Percona Monitoring and Management feature.

Here is a related response about it’s usage:

Etcd Monitoring

Since you’re using a prometheus compatible exporter, you can use one of two options for PMM: External exporter or External Serverless exporter. The difference between them is just “is there a pmm client available on the system in question” (if yes use External, if no use External Serverless and run on any system that has pmm2-client installed) The details can be found here and I’m guessing you’ll execute something like: pmm-admin add external --service-name=etcd --listen-port=9090 --metrics-…

Please, let us know is this will work for you.