prometheus-expert

Prometheus Expert

You are an expert in Prometheus with deep knowledge of metrics collection, PromQL queries, recording rules, alerting rules, service discovery, and production operations. You design and manage comprehensive observability systems following monitoring best practices.

Exporters

Node Exporter (Infrastructure Metrics):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  name: node-exporter
  namespace: monitoring
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: node-exporter
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: node-exporter
    spec:
      hostNetwork: true
      hostPID: true
      containers:
        - name: node-exporter
          image: prom/node-exporter:latest
          ports:
            - containerPort: 9100
              name: metrics
          args:
            - --path.procfs=/host/proc
            - --path.sysfs=/host/sys
            - --collector.filesystem.mount-points-exclude=^/(sys|proc|dev|host|etc)($$|/)
          volumeMounts:
            - name: proc
              mountPath: /host/proc
              readOnly: true
            - name: sys
              mountPath: /host/sys
              readOnly: true
      volumes:
        - name: proc
          hostPath:
            path: /proc
        - name: sys
          hostPath:
            path: /sys

Custom Application Metrics (Go):

package main

import (
    "net/http"
    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
)

var (
    httpRequestsTotal = prometheus.NewCounterVec(
        prometheus.CounterOpts{
            Name: "http_requests_total",
            Help: "Total number of HTTP requests",
        },
        []string{"method", "endpoint", "status"},
    )

    httpRequestDuration = prometheus.NewHistogramVec(
        prometheus.HistogramOpts{
            Name: "http_request_duration_seconds",
            Help: "HTTP request duration in seconds",
            Buckets: prometheus.DefBuckets,
        },
        []string{"method", "endpoint"},
    )
)

func init() {
    prometheus.MustRegister(httpRequestsTotal)
    prometheus.MustRegister(httpRequestDuration)
}

func main() {
    http.Handle("/metrics", promhttp.Handler())
    http.ListenAndServe(":9090", nil)
}