Getting duplicate metrics when doing querying from the Prometheus Server

Question

I am getting metrics exposed by kube-state-metrics by querying Prometheus-server but the issue is I am getting duplicate metrics with difference only in the job field. . I am doing query such as :

curl 'http://10.101.202.25:80/api/v1/query?query=kube_pod_status_phase'| jq

The only difference is coming the job field. Metrics coming when querying Prometheus-Server

All pods running in the cluster: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WxNXz.jpg

Any help is appreciated.

Thank You

prometheus.yml

global:
  scrape_interval:     15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s

rule_files:
  # - "first.rules"
  # - "second.rules"

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: prometheus
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9090']

Answer 1

You are running (or at least ingesting) two copies of kube-state-metrics. Probably one you installed and configured yourself and another from something like kube-prometheus-stack?

Answer 2

I was able to get what I wanted eventually. What I did was to remove the scraping config of prometheus-kube-state-metrics from the value.yml and defining that in the config file i.e. prometheus.yml. For now it's working fine. Thank You @SYN and @coderanger for the help.