Merge f6619a7 into 6246677

prometheus.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+global:
+  scrape_interval:     15s # By default, scrape targets every 15 seconds.
+  evaluation_interval: 15s # By default, scrape targets every 15 seconds.
+
+# NOTE: use this to validate config file 
+# ./promtool check config prometheus.yml
+
 # Alertmanager configuration
 alerting:
   alertmanagers:
@@ -26,5 +33,11 @@ scrape_configs:
   - job_name: 'golang_app'
     # will give application metrics
     metrics_path: /metrics
+    # scrape_interval defines after how much time, targets will be scraped for metrics.
+    # scrape_timeout - Prometheus will try for 30s to scrape the metrics, if it can't scrap in this time,
+    # it will timeout.
+
+    # scrape_interval: 30s
+    # scrape_timeout: 20s
     static_configs:
     - targets: ['localhost:8080']