Incorrect target endpoint link

[rvgate]

What did you do?
wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v1.7.1/prometheus-1.7.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz prometheus-1.7.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd prometheus-1.7.1.linux-amd64/
./prometheus
Then navigate to http://localhost:9090/targets

Tried both with:
prometheus-2.0.0-beta.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
prometheus-1.7.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

What did you expect to see?
I expected the Endpoint target link to be matching the link description. Clicking it should get me to that location. For example, the default target "http://localhost:9090/metrics" should bring me to "http://localhost:9090/metrics" when you click it.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?
The target "http://localhost:9090/metrics" brings me to "http://myhostname:9090/metrics"

• System information:

  Linux 4.4.0-83-generic x86_64

• Prometheus version:

  prometheus, version 1.7.1 (branch: master, revision: 3afb3ff)
  build user: root@0aa1b7fc430d
  build date: 20170612-11:44:05
  go version: go1.8.3

• Prometheus configuration file:
  unchanged

• Alertmanager configuration file:
  unchanged

• Logs:
  nothing relevant

• Screenshot:
  

[brian-brazil]

This is by design, it's an old feature so that if you are on another machine and Prometheus is scraping "localhost" you'll still go to the right place.

[lock]

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