Where Is the Scraping Interval for Prometheus Defined?

Prometheus scrape metrics from monitored targets at regular intervals, defined by the scrape_interval (defaults to 1m ). The scrape interval can be configured globally, and then overriden per job.

Where is Prometheus config file?

The prometheus. yml file is embedded inside the config-map. yml file, in the “data” section, so that's where you can add the remote_read/write details.

How does Prometheus scrape metrics?

Prometheus collects metrics from targets by scraping metrics HTTP endpoints. Since Prometheus exposes data in the same manner about itself, it can also scrape and monitor its own health. For a complete specification of configuration options, see the configuration documentation.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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