Not able to monitor 3rd party exporters

[ashish235]

Hi Stefan,

I tried to follow the "https://github.com/stefanprodan/swarmprom#monitoring-applications-and-backend-services" to monitor kafka and MySQL services using Prometheus provided exporters for these tools.

Eg. this one for MySQL https://github.com/prometheus/mysqld_exporter

I configured this in docker-compose file

    environment:
      - JOBS=kafka-exporter:9308 mysql-exporter:9104

Now I can see the metrics from the web browser. But my Prometheus is not scraping any metrics from them.

So I have some confusion here.

1. I 've attached these exporter containers to my mon_net network. But I started them with the docker run command, do I need to start with them with stack?
2. If I want to use the blackbox exporter which needs much more arguments than the exporter name and port how do I pass them to the container? given that I can't edit the Prometheus.yml file.

Thanks for the help.

Regards, Ashish

[zerolimit5]

Hi Ashish

Where in the docker-compose file did you enter that environment. If you could share your edits it would be greatly appreciated.

[souhaiebtar]

Hi @ashish235, your post helped me in a way, but what i added to make prometheus scrap my data, is to add a job in prometheus/conf/prometheus.yml

docker-compose.yml file, add:

prometheus:
    image: stefanprodan/swarmprom-prometheus:v2.2.0-rc.0
    environment:
        - JOBS=sts-exporter:9913

prometheus/conf/prometheus.yml file, add:

   - job_name: 'nginx'
         static_configs:
              - targets: ['sts-exporter']

sts-exporter is a service running on the same overlay network as swarmprom

for me i created an overlay network using docker network create --drive overlay attachable appnet and changed docker-compose.yml of swarmprom to use the external network,