Use custom user agent

[grobie]

Prometheus currently uses the default golang HTTP user agent Go-http-client/1.1. In order to unambiguously identify scrape requests, it'd be helpful to see a custom Prometheus user agent.

[matthiasr]

How does that relate to the Accept header that it sends?

[brian-brazil]

It wouldn't. This helps users debugging issues by making it easier to identify requests from Prometheus servers.

[matthiasr]

👍

[agaoglu]

PR sets a custom user agent, though i'm not sure about the name. Default was Go-http-client/1.1 proposed is Prometheus-scraper/1.0. Is that any good?

[grobie]

I had something like "Prometheus v1.5.2" in mind. I'm open to more specific agent identifiers like including "-scraper" of people think that removes confusion.

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[agaoglu]

Updated PR to make use of build version.

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