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diff --git a/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md b/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md index 49cf6587b..86be758e4 100644 --- a/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md +++ b/exporting/WALKTHROUGH.md @@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ this is your first time using Netdata I suggest you take a look around. The amou Next I want to draw your attention to a particular endpoint. Navigate to <http://localhost:19999/api/v1/allmetrics?format=prometheus&help=yes> In your browser. This is the endpoint which publishes all the metrics in a format which Prometheus understands. Let's take a look at one of these metrics. -`netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average{chart="system.cpu",family="cpu",dimension="system"} 0.0831255 1501271696000` This -metric is representing several things which I will go in more details in the section on Prometheus. For now understand -that this metric: `netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average` has several labels: (`chart`, `family`, `dimension`). This -corresponds with the first cpu chart you see on the Netdata dashboard. +`netdata_disk_space_GiB_average{chart="disk_space._run",dimension="avail",family="/run",mount_point="/run",filesystem="tmpfs",mount_root="/"} 0.0298195 1684951093000` +This metric is representing several things which I will go in more details in the section on Prometheus. For now understand +that this metric: `netdata_disk_space_GiB_average` has several labels: (`chart`, `family`, `dimension`, `mountt_point`, `filesystem`, `mount_root`). +This corresponds with disk space you see on the Netdata dashboard.  @@ -138,12 +138,13 @@ As explained we have two key elements in Prometheus metrics. We have the _metric granularity between metrics. Let's use our previous example to further explain. ```conf -netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average{chart="system.cpu",family="cpu",dimension="system"} 0.0831255 1501271696000 +netdata_disk_space_GiB_average{chart="disk_space._run",dimension="avail",family="/run",mount_point="/run",filesystem="tmpfs",mount_root="/"} 0.0298195 1684951093000 ``` -Here our metric is `netdata_system_cpu_percentage_average` and our labels are `chart`, `family`, and `dimension`. The -last two values constitute the actual metric value for the metric type (gauge, counter, etc…). We can begin graphing -system metrics with this information, but first we need to hook up Prometheus to poll Netdata stats. +Here our metric is `netdata_disk_space_GiB_average` and our common labels are `chart`, `family`, and `dimension`. The +last two values constitute the actual metric value for the metric type (gauge, counter, etc…). We also have specific +label for this chart named `mount_point`,`filesystem`, and `mount_root`. We can begin graphing system metrics with this information, +but first we need to hook up Prometheus to poll Netdata stats. Let's move our attention to Prometheus's configuration. Prometheus gets it config from the file located (in our example) at `/opt/prometheus/prometheus.yml`. I won't spend an extensive amount of time going over the configuration values |