Thanks for sharing that perspective. I hadn’t heard that before but I tend to agree. I also prefer Prometheus debugging webpage on port 9090 over the more limited info agent shows on 12345.
On the other hand, agent has remote.s3 which is a nice way to discover targets securely, instead of http_sd. On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 01:14 Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote: > The Grafana agent isn't really meant for complex/large setups. If you have > a large/dynamic target list you're probably better off just running normal > Prometheus and exporters. > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:09 AM 'Elliott Balsley' via Prometheus Users < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I noticed Grafana Agent flow mode has many of the popular Prometheus >> exporters built in. >> >> https://grafana.com/docs/agent/latest/flow/reference/components/prometheus.exporter.snmp/ >> >> Unfortunately, these blocks require that you hard code the list of >> targets in the config.river file, so there is no way to dynamically connect >> it to a discovery block. Adding targets would require rewriting the config >> file and restarting the service. >> >> I’m curious if anyone else has found a good use for these embedded >> exporters? >> >> I’m currently running Prometheus embedded in the agent, receiving the map >> of targets from HTTP discovery with some relabeling (multi-target exporter >> pattern), and scraping a separate instance of snmp-exporter. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Prometheus Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CALajkdhS9Pk3LAHzDCUz4xDeosjtOY0yRKnLhrkFckY9WVMvnQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CALajkdhS9Pk3LAHzDCUz4xDeosjtOY0yRKnLhrkFckY9WVMvnQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CALajkdh00zcaaJ-QD7G_xf0BZmp_SArQo80qwyQCOwXCt_r8yw%40mail.gmail.com.
