Is there any way to convert skywalking metrics into prometheus?

[ravenfu]

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Is there any way to convert skywalking metrics into prometheus?

I'm designing our monitor system. I'm planning to monitor applications by using skywalking, monitor infrastructure and middleware by using prometheus, collect and analysis logs by using Loki, and show the system state on Grafana.

Skywalking is the best tool on tracing, but I want to unified alarm on Prometheus, and unified display on Grafana for Monitoring Screen.

So I want to transfer skywalking metrics to prometheus, not only it's self monitoring metrics.
Is this idea feasible?

[wu-sheng]

It depends on what metrics are you going to do. If you want to forward all, Prometheus would crash, it has no chance to support SkyWalking's whole metrics dataset.

[liyuntian]

Maybe I could have a try, let's see what happens.

then what happen？we want to collect skywalking metrics in different k8s colony in one place

[wu-sheng]

Collecting SkyWalking metrics or service metrics in SkyWalking are different. Define what do you propose before doing anything.

[liyuntian]

we want to collect service metrics and Jvm metrics in different SkyWalking,and display in our monitor system，so we can monitor multiple cluster services and jvm in one interface

[nisiyong]

@liyuntian If you want to do this, you could do it yourself. Some tips for you, you could collect the jvm metrics which foward by grpc gateway, and store it on your own application.

[wu-sheng]

we want to collect service metrics and Jvm metrics in different SkyWalking,and display in our monitor system，so we can monitor multiple cluster services and jvm in one interface

We don't support this directly, you could use metrics exporter to forward metrics on your own.

[wu-sheng]

This is what we are going to do officially.

#10080

PromQL based query support could support Grafana and any other 3rd party integrated with Prometheus, as they are sharing to use this query protocol.