# How to add etcd service to prometheus conifg?

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**Category:** PMM 2.x\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-etcd-service-to-prometheus-conifg/27667 "2024-01-10T02:32:08Z")\
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Hi @zard14  
The best option is to use External Monitoring [External Services - Percona Monitoring and Management](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/setting-up/client/external.html) feature.

Here is a related response about it’s usage:

> [@Etcd Monitoring](https://forums.percona.com/t/etcd-monitoring/10191/2):
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> 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](https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-monitoring-and-management/2.x/setting-up/client/external.html) 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.

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