There is a specific error that has presented itself each time I had modified the configuration file for Prometheus as well as configuring the Prometheus start up service. See status below:
prometheus.service - Monitoring system and time series database
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/prometheus.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-04-11 17:35:37 UTC; 3s ago
Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
Process: 1192591 ExecStart=/usr/bin/prometheus $ARGS (code=exited, status=2)
Main PID: 1192591 (code=exited, status=2)
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: prometheus.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: prometheus.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: prometheus.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: Stopped Monitoring system and time series database.
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: prometheus.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: prometheus.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 11 17:35:37 * systemd[1]: Failed to start Monitoring system and time series database.
Located below is the configuration of prometheus.yml
global:
scrape_interval: 15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
# scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s).
# Attach these labels to any time series or alerts when communicating with
# external systems (federation, remote storage, Alertmanager).
external_labels:
monitor: 'example'
# Alertmanager configuration
alerting:
alertmanagers:
- static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9093']
# Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.
rule_files:
# - "first_rules.yml"
# - "second_rules.yml"
# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
# Here it's Prometheus itself.
scrape_configs:
# The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
- job_name: 'prometheus'
# Override the global default and scrape targets from this job every 5 seconds.
scrape_interval: 5s
scrape_timeout: 5s
# metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
# scheme defaults to 'http'.
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9090']
- job_name: test
# If prometheus-node-exporter is installed, grab stats about the local
# machine by default.
static_configs:
- targets: ['localhost:9100']
Here is the prometheus.service
[Unit]
Description=Monitoring system and time series database
Documentation=https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
[Service]
Restart=always
User=prometheus
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/prometheus
ExecStart=/usr/bin/prometheus $ARGS
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
TimeoutStopSec=20s
SendSIGKILL=no
LimitNOFILE=8192
[Install]
Finally, the file that is called upon
ARGS="--config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml \
--storage.tsdb.path /monitoring/prometheus/prometheus_data/ \
--web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles \
--web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries \
--web.external-url=https://prom.example.com \
--web.listen-address=:9090 \
--web.listen-address=:9100 \
--web.listen-address=:9101 \
--web.enable-lifecycle \
--web.enable-admin-api \
--log.level=info"
I am unsure if something is wrong with how I am installing Prometheus (through sudo apt install prometheus
). I have rebuilt this machine twice to see if it was something with configuration, but still have the same error.