From f6619a76ab19b8e2b11c62b3a942211fb24173a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rv404674 <rv404674@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:49:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed Prometheus scraping bug

---
 prometheus.yml | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/prometheus.yml b/prometheus.yml
index d7d32eb..196f60e 100644
--- a/prometheus.yml
+++ b/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']
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