# How to add external exporter in pmm-admin using domain name like monitroing.mydomain.com

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**Category:** PMM 2.x\
**Created:** [July 13, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-external-exporter-in-pmm-admin-using-domain-name-like-monitroing-mydomain-com/11323 "2021-07-13T13:48:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ajithkumar\_ops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Ajithkumar\_ops](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ajithkumar_ops)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-external-exporter-in-pmm-admin-using-domain-name-like-monitroing-mydomain-com/11323/1 "2021-07-13T13:48:10Z")

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I use commands in pmm-admin servers like

> pmm-admin add external-serverless --external-name=mysql\_somewhere --host=[monitoring.mydomain.com](http://monitoring.mydomain.com) --listen-port=443 --metrics-path=/metrics --scheme=https

after we run this command getting error like this  
_Connection check failed: Unexpected HTTP status code: 403. Expected: 200._

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**Author:** ![steve.hoffman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/steve.hoffman/32/66_2.png) [@steve.hoffman](https://forums.percona.com/u/steve.hoffman)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-external-exporter-in-pmm-admin-using-domain-name-like-monitroing-mydomain-com/11323/2 "2021-07-13T15:11:47Z")

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have you tried adding the --server-url=https://\<pmmAdminUser\>:\<pmmAdminPass\>@\<pmm-server\>:\<port\>? flag? It appears you’re getting a 403 forbidden trying to register with the PMM server. If that works, it may be a bug that we’re not reading the username/password from the config file for external-serverless exporters…

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**Author:** ![Ajithkumar\_ops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Ajithkumar\_ops](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ajithkumar_ops)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-add-external-exporter-in-pmm-admin-using-domain-name-like-monitroing-mydomain-com/11323/3 "2021-07-17T10:50:06Z")

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**pmm-admin add external-serverless --external-name=exporter\_name --host=[domain.com](http://domain.com) --listen-port=443 --metrics-path=/metrics --scheme=https --server-url=[https://admin:admin@my.ip.server:8082](https://admin:admin@my.ip.server:8082)**  
_Post “[https://my.ip.server:8082/v1/management/External/Add](https://my.ip.server:8082/v1/management/External/Add)”: http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client_  
this is our result, sir…it’s also not working any other problem in our configuration side or domain setup side ? any other solutions or suggestions please let me know si.