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When using Kubernetes discovery, Chronosphere Collector determines the options for scraping endpoints based on this order:
  1. Default global scrape configuration
  2. Global scrape configuration
  3. Kubernetes annotations
  4. Job configuration
Any settings made by an earlier configuration are overwritten by a later configuration. For example, the default scrape interval as set in the default global scrape configuration is 10 seconds (10s). You can override this interval by setting a scrape configuration, adding an annotation to a Kubernetes object, or adding a job configuration.

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Global scrape configuration

To apply those settings globally to all jobs, define the following default scrape configuration: 
scrape:
 defaults:
    metricsPath: "/metrics"
    scheme: "http"
    scrapeInterval: 10s
    scrapeTimeout: 10s
    honorLabels: false
    honorTimestamps: true
    relabels: <nil>
    metricRelabels: <nil>
    enableCompression: true
You can override the global scrape configuration to set options for your instance. If you don’t specify a field, it uses the default values. The Prometheus relabel_config configuration applies to relabels and metricRelabels parameters. This configuration allows for advanced modifications to any target and its labels before Collector ingests metrics. By default, scrapes request gzip compression by using the Accept-Encoding header. This is configured by the enableCompression option.

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Kubernetes annotations

You can use Kubernetes annotations to override any global defaults. Collector supports the following Prometheus annotations to enable scraping for a pod. By default, prometheus.io prefixes each of these annotations, such as prometheus.io/scrape. You can change the annotation prefix to a different value.
  • /scrape: Determines whether to enable scraping. Excludes scraping the pod if set to false.
  • /port: The port to scrape on the pod.
  • /path: The pod’s metrics path.
  • /params: HTTP URL parameters.
  • /scheme: The connection protocol, either http or https.
  • /job: Overrides the value of the job label.
  • /collectionInterval: Determines how often to scrape endpoints. Default: 10s.
  • /collectionTimeout: The timeout for a scrape operation.
  • /serviceAccountBearerToken: The token value, if using service account authentication.
  • /httpProxyURL: The Proxy URL of connections to this pod.
  • /tlsServerName: The host name when using TLS authentication.
  • /tlsInsecureSkipVerify: Determines whether to verify a server’s certificate. Set to true to avoid verifying the server’s certificate for validity.
The pod being scraped might use some of the following annotations. If so, the Collector pod must also have either an environment variable or a file pointing to files/env vars.
  • /httpBasicAuthUsernameEnvVar: The Username environment variable when using basic authentication.
  • /httpBasicAuthPasswordEnvVar: The Password environment variable when using basic authentication.
  • /httpBasicAuthPasswordFile: The path to a file containing a password when using basic authentication.
  • /httpBearerTokenEnvVar: The Token environment variable when using HTTP bearer token authentication.
  • /httpBearerTokenFile: The path to a file containing a bearer token when using HTTP bearer token authentication.
  • /tlsCAFile: The path to a CA certificate when using TLS authentication.
  • /tlsCertFile: The path to a personal certificate when using TLS authentication.
  • /tlsKeyFile: The path to a private key when using TLS authentication.
For example, if the Kubernetes pod to be scraped includes the following annotations: 
prometheus.io/scrape=true
prometheus.io/port=8090
prometheus.io/httpBasicAuthUsernameEnvVar=MY_USERNAME
httpBasicAuthPasswordEnvVar=MY_PASSWORD
The Collector pod must define these environment variables to populate the httpBasicAuthUsernameEnvVar and httpBasicAuthPasswordEnvVar annotations’ values: 
MY_USERNAME=admin
MY_PASSWORD=mypassword

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Change annotation prefix

You can change the annotation prefix by setting the environment variable KUBERNETES_PROCESSOR_ANNOTATIONS_PREFIX as the value of the annotationsPrefix key in the processor section of the kubernetes collection. The default value is prometheus.io/. 
kubernetes:
  ...
  # processor defines configuration for processing pods discovered on Kubernetes.
  processor:
    # annotationsPrefix is the prefix for annotations that the Collector uses to scrape discovered pods.
    annotationsPrefix: ${KUBERNETES_PROCESSOR_ANNOTATIONS_PREFIX:"prometheus.io/"}
If you modify a Collector manifest, you must update it in the cluster and restart the Collector.

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Scrape multiple ports

The prometheus.io/port annotation can accept a comma-separated list of the ports to scrape, such as prometheus.io/port: 1234,5678. The endpoints must both use the same path. For example both ports 1234 and 5678 must expose Prometheus metrics on the /metrics path. If you specify multiple ports, the pods must expose all ports in the list. The following is an example of a container ports configuration in a pod manifest that exposes both 1234 and 5678: 
ports:
  - name: metrics
    containerPort: 1234
  - name: other_metrics
    containerPort: 5678

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Define jobs configuration

When using annotations for scraping, you can configure the jobs collection to override any of the defaults set in the global scrape configuration. The following example contains the value types for the jobs collection: 
jobs:
  - name: "example_job"
    options:
      metricsPath: PATH
      params: STRING
      scheme: SCHEME
      scrapeInterval: SCRAPE_INTERVAL
      scrapeTimeout: SCRAPE_TIMEOUT
      honorLabels: BOOLEAN
      honorTimestamps: BOOLEAN
      relabels: RELABEL_CONFIG
      metricRelabels: RELABEL_CONFIG
      enableCompression: BOOLEAN
The name value must be unique across all scrape configurations, and must match the job name set in the annotations. For example, prometheus.io/job.
For example, to change the scrapeInterval to 1m and create a relabeling rule that changes the name of the label code to status_code for the api job, add the following configuration to the config.yml field of the chronocollector-config ConfigMap: 
jobs:
  - name: api
    options:
      scrapeInterval: 1m
      relabels:
        - action: replace
          regex: (.*)
          replacement: $1
          sourceLabels:
            - code
          targetLabel: status_code
If you modify a Collector manifest, you must update it in the cluster and restart the Collector.

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Differences between relabel and metricRelabels

A Prometheus relabel configuration defines the targets you want to scrape and the target labels. Using relabel rewrites the label set of a target before it’s scraped. Collector applies metricRelabels after the scrape but before ingesting data. Use metricRelabels if there are expensive metrics that you want to drop, or labels coming from the scrape itself that you want to manipulate. In this example, the relabel rule replaces the name of the label code to status_code for the api job before scraping the metrics: 
jobs:
  - name: api
    options:
      scrapeInterval: 1m
      relabels:
        - action: replace
          regex: (.*)
          replacement: $1
          sourceLabels:
            - code
          targetLabel: status_code
The following metricsRelabel rule replaces the pod and job labels for the cadvisor job on promremotebench-0 to database: 
jobs:
  - name: cadvisor
    options:
      metricRelabels:
        - action: replace
          regex: promremotebench-0;(.*)
          replacement: $1
          sourceLabels:
            - pod
            - job
          targetLabel: database
Environment variable expansions and Prometheus relabel rule regular expression capture group references can use the same syntax. For example, ${1} is valid in both contexts.If your relabel configuration uses Prometheus relabel rule regular expression capture group references, and they are in the ${1} format, escape the syntax by adding an extra $ character to the expression such as $${1}.

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metricRelabels actions

The following actions are available for metricRelabels:
  • replace: Match a regular expression against the concatenated sourceLabels. Then, set targetLabel to replacement, with match group references (such as ${1} or ${2}) in the replacement substituted by their value. If the regular expression doesn’t match, no replacement occurs.
  • keep: Drop targets for which a regular expression doesn’t match the concatenated sourceLabels. 
    jobs:
  - name: kubelet
    options:
      metricRelabels:
        - action: keep
          regex: (?i)(kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes|kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes)
          sourceLabels: [__name__]
  • drop: Drop targets for which the regular expression matches the concatenated sourceLabels. The following example demonstrates using relabels to drop the __name__ on cadvisor metrics: 
    jobs:
  - name: cadvisor
    options:
      relabels:
        - action: drop
          regex: (.*)
          sourceLabels: [__name__]
  • labelmap: Match a regular expression against all label names. Then, copy the values of the matching labels to the label names given by the replacement with match group references (such as ${1} or ${2}) in the replacement substituted by their value. The following example uses labelmap to copy all labels containing __meta_kubernetes_service_label_ and keep only a portion: 
    - action: labelmap
  regex: __meta_kubernetes_service_label_(.+)
    In this example, the label __meta_kubernetes_service_label_app='api' is changed to app='api'.
  • labeldrop: Match a regular expression against all label names and remove any label that from the set of labels. The following example matches all label names that contain container_label_com_amazonaws_ecs_task_arn: 
    metricRelabels:
  - regex: 'container_label_com_amazonaws_ecs_task_arn'
    action: labeldrop
  • labelkeep: Match a regular expression against all label names and remove any label that doesn’t match from the set of labels. The following example drops all label names that don’t match job: 
    metricRelabels:
  - regex: 'job'
    action: labelkeep