YES
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 9:30 pm, Julius Volz <julius.v...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear Prometheans,
<https://github.com/prometheus/docs/pull/1640> proposes to list an
exporter for Fortigate devices that uses a REST API. Brian's stance
so far has been to only add exporters for metrics that cannot be
already produced by another exporter on the list at
<https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/>, with the
intention of focusing community efforts rather than spreading them
over multiple competing exporters for the same thing.
Since the Fortigate device can also be monitored via SNMP, Brian's
argument is that the SNMP Exporter
(<https://github.com/prometheus/snmp_exporter>) already covers this
use case and a more specialized REST-API-based exporter for Fortigate
should not be listed. On the other hand, many people feel that SNMP
is painful to work with, and monitoring via a REST API is much
preferrable. (Further, and not directly relevant to this vote, the
Fortigate REST API also reports some information that is not
available via SNMP (see
<https://github.com/prometheus/docs/pull/1640#issuecomment-633303249>)).
In general I like the guideline of not adding too many competing
exporters for the same thing to our public integrations list, but I
believe that it should only be a guideline. I believe that SNMP is
enough of an operational pain that we should allow exceptions for
more specific, non-SNMP-based exporters like the linked one. It seems
that the discussion has been had and is laid out in the issue.
I therefore call a vote for the following proposal:
Allow adding exporters to
<https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/> although the
devices or applications that they export data for can already be
monitored via SNMP (and thus via the SNMP Exporter). This proposal
does not affect other criteria that we may use in deciding whether to
list an exporter or not.
The vote closes on 2020-06-04 20:30 UTC.
Cheers,
Julius
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