Hi fellow Dynatracers,
I am currently writing an extension for scraping a prometheus endpoint of an appliance. This is a virtual appliance that is under update control of the supplier.
Coding
- What is best practice for the extension name (e.g. biz.ictcore.<suppliername>.<supplierProductname>) to use safe namespaces (ictcore.biz is my domain)?
- What is best practice for the metrics naming (<suppliername>.<supplierProductname>.<original prometheusMetricname>), to avoid clashes?
- This specific Prometheus reply also contains some static values, like a build_info metric. How could I put this information into attributes for my topology, so that it gets visible in the properties (like I already put in some other info in properties)?
# HELP node_exporter_build_info A metric with a constant '1' value labeled by version, revision, branch, goversion from which node_exporter was built, and the goos and goarch for the build.
example for <suppliername>.<supplierProductname> could be paloalto.cortexxdr or f5.bigip ... etc.
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