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# Simpleprometheus

> OpenTelemetry receiver for Simpleprometheus

# Simpleprometheus Receiver

![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-unmaintained-lightgrey)

**Available in:** `contrib`

**Source:** [opentelemetry-collector-contrib](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/simpleprometheusreceiver)

## Supported Telemetry

![Metrics](https://img.shields.io/badge/metrics-unmaintained-green)

## Overview

The `prometheus_simple` receiver is a wrapper around the [prometheus
receiver](../prometheusreceiver).

## Configuration

The following settings are required:

* `endpoint` (default = `localhost:9090`): The endpoint from which prometheus
  metrics should be scraped.

The following settings are optional:

* `collection_interval` (default = `10s`): The internal at which metrics should
  be emitted by this receiver.
* `job_name` (default = `prometheus_simple/${endpoint}`): Prometheus scrape job name.
* `labels` (default = `{}`): Static prometheus labels to assign to all metrics scraped from this endpoint.
* `metrics_path` (default = `/metrics`): The path to the metrics endpoint.
* `params` (default = `{}`): The query parameters to pass to the metrics endpoint. If specified, params are appended to `metrics_path` to form the URL with which the target is scraped.
* `use_service_account` (default = `false`): Whether or not to use the
  Kubernetes Pod service account for authentication.
* `tls_enabled` (default = `false`): Whether or not to use TLS. Only if
  `tls_enabled` is set to `true`, the values under `tls_config` are accounted
  for. This setting will be deprecated. Please use `tls` instead.

The `tls_config` section supports the following options. This setting will be deprecated. Please use `tls` instead:

* `ca_file` (no default): Path to the CA cert that has signed the TLS
  certificate.

* `cert_file` (no default): Path to the client TLS certificate to use for TLS
  required connections.

* `key_file` (no default): Path to the client TLS key to use for TLS required
  connections.

* `insecure_skip_verify` (default = `false`): Whether or not to skip
  certificate verification.

* `tls`: see [TLS Configuration Settings](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/config/configtls/README.md#tls-configuration-settings) for the full set of available options.

Example:

```yaml theme={null}
    receivers:
      prometheus_simple:
        collection_interval: 10s
        use_service_account: true
        endpoint: "172.17.0.5:9153"
        tls:
          ca_file: "/path/to/ca"
          cert_file: "/path/to/cert"
          key_file: "/path/to/key"
          insecure_skip_verify: true
    exporters:
      signalfx:
        access_token: <SIGNALFX_ACCESS_TOKEN>
        url: <SIGNALFX_INGEST_URL>

    service:
      pipelines:
        metrics:
          receivers: [prometheus_simple]
          exporters: [signalfx]
```

The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented in [config.go](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/simpleprometheusreceiver/config.go)
with detailed sample configurations in [testdata/config.yaml](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/simpleprometheusreceiver/testdata/config.yaml).

## Configuration

### Example Configuration

```yaml theme={null}
prometheus_simple:
prometheus_simple/all_settings:
  endpoint: "localhost:1234"
  collection_interval: 30s
  metrics_path: /v2/metrics
  job_name: "job123"
  params:
    columns: "name,messages"
    key: [ "foo","bar" ]
  use_service_account: true
  tls:
    ca_file: "path"
    cert_file: "path"
    key_file: "path"
    insecure: false
    insecure_skip_verify: true
prometheus_simple/partial_settings:
  collection_interval: 30s
  endpoint: "localhost:1234"
  tls:
    insecure: true
prometheus_simple/partial_tls_settings:
  collection_interval: 30s
  endpoint: "localhost:1234"
  tls:
    insecure: false
```

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