Integration with Prometheus Server

Push (Remote Write)

In this setup, each instance of Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector is configured to send the collected metrics to the Prometheus Server, using the Remote Write Protocol.

Your Prometheus Server must be configured to allow the Remote Write feature:

• Enable the Remote Write Receiver with the --enable-feature=remote-write-receiver option
• Configure the Remote Write Receiver

Once Remote Write is enabled and configured on your Prometheus Server, edit the exporters section of the config/otel-config.yaml configuration file as in the below example:

exporters:
  prometheusremotewrite/your-prom-server:
    endpoint: http://your-prom-server:9090/api/v1/write

You can customize the prometheusremotewrite exporter configuration to match your Prometheus Server's configuration, notably the endpoint URL.

Make sure to declare the exporter in the pipeline section of config/otel-config.yaml:

service:
  extensions: [health_check]
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [prometheus_exec/hws-exporter,prometheus/internal]
      processors: [memory_limiter,batch,metricstransform]
      exporters: [prometheusremotewrite/your-prom-server] # Your prometheusremotewrite exporter must be listed here

Pull (Scrape)

In this setup, each instance of Hardware Sentry OpenTelemetry Collector exposes the collected metrics via HTTP, and the Prometheus Server connects to each instance to scrape the /metrics endpoint. You need to ensure the Prometheus Server has network access to each collector.

By default, the internal Hardware Sentry Exporter for Prometheus is started on port TCP/24375. The port can be modified in the receivers section of config/otel-config.yaml.

As the Prometheus Server will communicate directly with the internal Hardware Sentry Exporter for Prometheus, the OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline is completely skipped (receivers, processors and exporters). In fact, in this scenario, you can even decide to run the Hardware Sentry Exporter for Prometheus process standalone, without the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Once Hardware Sentry Exporter for Prometheus is running, you can configure a job in the scrape_configs section of your Prometheus Server configuration:

  - job_name: hardware_sentry
    scrape_interval: <duration>
    scrape_timeout: <duration>
    static_configs:
    scheme: <http or https>
    - targets: ['<hostname:port_number>' ]

<duration> is a duration that must be greater than the collectPeriod defined in config/hws-config.yaml to avoid gaps and duplicate points in the metrics, which will affect the calculation of rates.

scheme is a string that can take the values http or https. If you need HTTPS to encrypt communications between your Prometheus Server and the Hardware Sentry Exporter for Prometheus, you need to start the exporter with the --server.ssl.enabled=true option. This can be done in the receivers section of config/otel-config.yaml.

Example:

  - job_name: hardware_sentry
    scrape_interval: 2m
    scrape_timeout: 30s
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['hws-exporter-siteA:8080']