Editing /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

* Linux: <code>[[/etc/prometheus/]]prometheus.yml</code>
* Homebrew: 
** <code>[[~/brew/etc/prometheus.yml]]</code>
** <code>[[~/brew/etc/prometheus.args]]</code>


 [[rule_files]]

== Default macOS ==
 [[~/brew/etc/prometheus.yml]]

 global:
   scrape_interval: 15s
 
 scrape_configs:
   - job_name: "prometheus"
     static_configs:
     - targets: ["localhost:[[9090]]"]

== Default [[Ubuntu 20.04 LTS]] file ==
 cat [[/etc/prometheus/]]prometheus.yml
 # Sample config for Prometheus. 
 
 global:
   scrape_interval:     15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
   [[evaluation_interval]]: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
   # scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s). 
 
   # Attach these labels to any time series or alerts when communicating with
   # external systems (federation, remote storage, [[Alertmanager]]).
   external_labels:
       monitor: 'example' 
 
 # Alertmanager configuration
 alerting:
   [[alertmanagers]]:
   - static_configs:
     - targets: ['localhost:9093']
 
 # Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.
 rule_files:
   # - "first_rules.yml"
   # - "second_rules.yml" 
 
 # A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
 # Here it's Prometheus itself.
 scrape_configs:
   # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
   - job_name: 'prometheus'
 
    # Override the globald efault and scrape targets from this job every 5 seconds.
    scrape_interval: 5s
    scrape_timeout: 5s
 
    # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
    # scheme defaults to 'http'.
 
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']
 
  - job_name: node
    # If prometheus-[[node-exporter]] is installed, grab stats about the local
    # machine by default.
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9100']

== Related terms ==
* <code>[[systemctl restart]] prometheus</code>
* <code>[[systemctl status prometheus]]</code>
* <code>level=error ts=2021-04-29T08:08:41.107Z caller=main.go:347 msg="Error loading config (--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml)" err="parsing YAML file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml: yaml: line 30: did not find expected key"</code>
* <code>[[/etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yml]]</code>
* <code>[[/etc/default/prometheus]]</code>
* [[Prometheus installation]]

== See also ==
* {{Prometheus}}

[[Category:Prometheus]]