Overview
Hi, it’s too hot summer in Korea. Today I want to talk about an interesting and exciting topic. Try to making your own exporter in Go language.
If you register a specific query, it is a simple program that shows the result of this query as an exporter result metrics. Some of you may still be unfamiliar with what Expoter is.
I will explain about Exporter step by step in today’s post.
Exporter?
You can think of an Exporter as an HTTP server for pulling data from a time series database like Prometheus. Prometheus periodically calls the specific URL of the exporter and saves the result of metrics as a time series.
There are many exporters exist in the everywhere.
Typically, there is mysqld_expoter, which is Prometheus’s Offcial projects, and …
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