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The configuration of prometheus is done via the prometheus.yml file in a Yaml format
Syntax
- Global Block Controls the Prometheus server's global configuration
global:
scrape_interval: 15s # controls how often Prometheus will scrape targets
evaluation_interval: 15s # controls how often Prometheus will evaluate rules
- rule_files block specifies the location of any rules we want the Prometheus server to load
rule_files:
# - "first.rules"
# - "second.rules"
- scrape_configs block controls what resources Prometheus monitors. The below example shows a single job, called prometheus, which scrapes the metrics (time series data) exposed by the Prometheus server
scrape_configs:
- job_name: prometheus
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9090']