Prometheus Push Proxy

Prometheus Push Proxy, PPP, enables application to push Prometheus to this Proxy to be exposed for scraping. The use case is to get Prometheus exp data from applications behind a firewall.

Endpoints

Prometheus push endpoint

• Push from a specific instance, the instance id has to be unique and conform http URL standard HTTP Methed - POST

/v1/proxy/{instance}

Prometheus scrape endpoint

• Scrape a sepcific instance HTTP Methed - GET

/proxy-metrics/{instance}

or

• Scrape all the instances

/proxy-metrics

Docker

docker run -d -it -v $HOME/go/src/github.com/kafkaesque-io/prometheus-pushproxy/config/default_config.yml:/root/config/default_config.yml -p 8981:8981 --name=prometheus-pushproxy prometheus-pushproxy

Helm chart

export PPP_CHART_DIR="$HOME/go/src/github.com/kafkaesque-io/prometheus-pushproxy/prometheus-pushproxy-chart"

helm3 install --debug --dry-run prod-prometheus-pushproxy --namespace monitoring --values values.yaml $PPP_CHART_DIR