# Integration of External Consul Cluster with PMM 2

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084>\
**Category:** PMM 2.x\
**Created:** [September 26, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084 "2020-09-26T19:45:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![fward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fward](https://forums.percona.com/u/fward)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/1 "2020-09-26T19:45:50Z")

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Hello, is it possible to extend PMM to use an existing consul cluster instead of the built-in consul package?

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**Author:** ![Vadim\_Yalovets](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vadim_yalovets/32/43_2.png) [@Vadim\_Yalovets](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vadim_Yalovets)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/2 "2020-09-27T05:00:56Z")

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Hi,

Consul isn’t used in PMM2 server.

[https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-3165](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-3165)

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**Author:** ![fward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fward](https://forums.percona.com/u/fward)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/3 "2020-09-28T01:01:20Z")

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Either that issue has been deleted or it is not viewable.

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/peter/32/2_2.png) [@Peter](https://forums.percona.com/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/4 "2020-09-28T06:21:07Z")

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@fward What are you trying to achieve ?

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**Author:** ![fward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fward](https://forums.percona.com/u/fward)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/5 "2020-09-28T06:29:53Z")

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Peter, at this point I just wanted to see the issue noted above wherein Consul was removed to ascertain if it was advisable to monitor or use the service delivery functions for this package with Consul since that package has been removed. You guys had to have a good reason to do that. Previously, my primary concern was that the external production Consul environment be used instead of the built-in version that was included with 1.7.

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**Author:** ![Peter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/peter/32/2_2.png) [@Peter](https://forums.percona.com/u/Peter)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/6 "2020-09-28T07:04:11Z")

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Percona Monitoring and Management is designed to be self contained package so using external Consul was never supported.

In PMM2 Consul is not used at all

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**Author:** ![fward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fward](https://forums.percona.com/u/fward)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/integration-of-external-consul-cluster-with-pmm-2/8084/7 "2020-09-28T07:33:12Z")

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Ok, good enough for me. Makes less headaches for me anyway.