Am 11.02.2019 um 10:40 schrieb Christopher Faulet: > Le 09/02/2019 à 10:47, Aleksandar Lazic a écrit : >> Hi Christopher. >> >> Am 07-02-2019 22:09, schrieb Christopher Faulet: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This patch adds a new component in contrib. It is a Prometheus >>> exporter for HAProxy. >> >> [snipp] >> >>> More details in the README. >>> >>> I'm not especially a Prometheus expert. And I must admit I never use >>> it. So if anyone have comments or suggestions, he is welcome. >> >> Just for my curiosity, what's wrong with the haproxy_exporter especially >> that haproxy_exporter uses the csv format from haproxy ? >> > > Hi Aleks, > > Nothing wrong. haproxy_exporter works pretty well AFAIK. It is just an > external > component and it may seem a bit annoying to deploying it instead of having > such > functionality built-in in HAProxy. Furthermore, haproxy_exporter "only" > exports > proxies and servers statistics. Unlike the built-in exporter, haproxy_exporter > is limited to what the stats applet exposes in HTTP. So, it cannot export > global > information. And with a bit more work, we can imagine to export even more info > from the built-in exporter.
You are absolutely right. > However, to mitigate what I said, it is not an aim for HAProxy to support all > monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB...). > So > it was added under contrib and not officially integrated into HAPRoxy. It is a > first step of a reflection on the output format for stats to let all kind of > external tools to retrieve them. But it not a priority either. It was just a > quick development and now we will wait and see if there is a particular demand > to go further and how we could address it, if any. I will add this prometheus-exporter to the dev builds as soon as it's in the source. Maybe we should think about ci with github? https://github.com/marketplace/category/continuous-integration Regards Aleks
