This module defines a struct that contains all of the fields necessary to configure an instance of PromEx.

While this module does not directly access your Application config, PromEx will call the PromEx.Config.build/1 function directly with the contents of Application.get_env(:your_otp_app, YourPromEx.Module). As such, this is an appropriate place to talk about how you go about configuring PromEx via your Application config.

By default, you can run PromEx without any additional configuration and PromEx will fall back on some sane defaults. Specifically, if you were to not add any configuration to your config.exs, dev.exs, prod.exs, etc files it would be the same as setting the following config:

config :web_app, WebApp.PromEx,
  disabled: false,
  manual_metrics_start_delay: :no_delay,
  drop_metrics_groups: [],
  grafana: :disabled,
  metrics_server: :disabled

In this configuration, the Grafana dashboards are not uploaded on application start, and a standalone HTTP metrics server is not started. In addition, the PromEx.ManualMetricsManager is started without any time delay, and all metrics groups from all the plugins are registered and set up.

If you would like to set up PromEx to communicate with Grafana, your config would look something like:

config :web_app, WebApp.PromEx,
  grafana: [
    host: "http://localhost:3000",
    username: "<YOUR_USERNAME>",  # Authenticate via Basic Auth
    password: "<YOUR_PASSWORD>",
    auth_token: "<YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN_HERE>", # Or authenticate via API Token
    upload_dashboards_on_start: true # This is an optional setting and will default to `true`
  ]

If you would like PromEx to start a standalone HTTP server to serve your aggregated metrics, you can leverage the :metrics_server config:

config :web_app, WebApp.PromEx,
  metrics_server: [
    port: 4021,
    path: "/metrics", # This is an optional setting and will default to `"/metrics"`
    protocol: :http, # This is an optional setting and will default to `:http`
    pool_size: 5, # This is an optional setting and will default to `5`
    cowboy_opts: [], # This is an optional setting and will default to `[]`
    auth_strategy: :none # This is an optional and will default to `:none`
  ]

If you would like the metrics server to be protected behind some sort of authentication, you can configure your :metrics_server like so:

config :web_app, WebApp.PromEx,
  metrics_server: [
    port: 4021,
    auth_strategy: :bearer,
    auth_token: "VGhpcyBpcyBzdXBlciBzZWNyZXQuLi5kb24ndCBkZWNvZGUgbWU="
  ]

Option Details

• :disabled - This option will disable the PromEx supervision tree entirely and will not start any metrics collectors. This is primarily used for disabling PromEx during testing. Default value: false

• :manual_metrics_start_delay - Manual metrics are gathered once on start up and then only when you call PromEx.ManualMetricsManager.refresh_metrics/1. Sometimes, you may have metrics that require your entire supervision tree to be started in order to fetch accurate data. This option will allow you to delays the initial metrics capture of the ManualMetricsManager by a certain number of milliseconds or the :no_delay atom if you want the metrics to be captured as soon as the ManualMetricsManager starts up. Default value: :no_delay

• :drop_metrics_groups - A list of all the metrics groups that you are not interested in tracking. For example, if your application does not leverage Phoenix channels at all but you still would like to use the PromEx.Plugins.Phoenix plugin, you can pass [:phoenix_channel_event_metrics] as the value to :drop_metrics_groups and that set of metrics will not be captured. Default value: []

• ets_flush_interval - This value denotes how often the metrics ETS table is compacted. In order to keep things performant and as low-overhead as possible, Telemetry metrics are buffered up in ETS until a request is made to retrieve metrics from the PromEx process. If no requests come in to extract the metrics, the ETS table can grow infinitely. Luckily, PromEx bundles a GenServer that periodically compacts ETS. This config value determines how often ETS should be compacted. Default value: 7_500

• :grafana - This key contains the configuration information for connecting to Grafana. Its configuration options are:

  • :host - The host address of your Grafana instance. In order for PromEx to communicate with Grafana this value should be in the format protocol://host:port like http://localhost:3000 for example.

  • :username - The username that was created in Grafana so that PromEx can upload dashboards via the API.

  • :password - The password that was created in Grafana so that PromEx can upload dashboards via the API.

  • :auth_token - The auth token that was created in Grafana so that PromEx can upload dashboards via the API.

  • :upload_dashboards_on_start - Using the config values that you set in your application config (config.exs, dev.exs, prod.exs, etc) PromEx will attempt to upload your Dashboards to Grafana using Grafana's HTTP API.

  • :folder_name - The name of the folder that PromEx will put all of the project dashboards in. PromEx will automatically generate a unique ID for the folder based on the project's otp_app value so that it can access the correct folder in Grafana. This also makes sure that different Elixir projects running in the same cluster and publishing dashboards to Grafana do not collide with one another. If no name is provided, then the dashboards will all be uploaded to the default Grafana folder.

  • :annotate_app_lifecycle - By enabling this setting, PromEx will leverage the Grafana API to annotate when the application was started, and when it was shut down. By default this is disabled but if you do enable it, no action is required from you in order to display these events on the dashboards. The annotations will automatically contain the necessary tags to only display on the PromEx dashboards. The annotation will include information including:

    • Hostname
    • OTP app name
    • App version
    • Git SHA of the last commit (if the GIT_SHA environment variable is present)
    • Git author of the last commit (if the GIT_AUTHOR environment variable is present)

  • :finch_pools - (optional) A map that will be passed to Finch.start_link/1 as the :pools key, which can be used to configure protocol, pool size, HTTP host headers, proxy server, etc.

• :grafana_agent - This key contains the configuration information for running GrafanaAgent via a port in order to push metrics to a Prometheus instance via remote_write functionality:

  Environment dependencies

  If your application is running inside of an Alpine Linux container (or any environment that is based on musl as opposed to glibc, be sure to add libc6-compat to to your list of packages. In addition, you'll also need bash running, as this port is wrapped by a bash script. For example, in a Dockerfile you would add: RUN apk add --no-cache bash libc6-compat

  • :version - The version of GrafanaAgent that you want to run. This is a string denoting the GrafanaAgent release version. Below are the supported versions (the downloaded artifacts are validated against their known SHA256 values so that you can be sure you are not downloading any malicious binaries and running them). By default, PromEx will use the result of PromEx.GrafanaAgent.Downloader.default_version() if no value is provided.

    • Supported versions are ["0.42.0"]

  • :working_directory - In order to leverage the GrafanaAgent functionality, PromEx needs to have read/write access to a directory in order to download and copy the GrafanaAgent binary. This is the full path to that directory.

  • :config_opts - The configuration file that GrafanaAgent is started with. This option can either accept an MFA that will return a string of the full path where the YAML configuration file is, or a keyword list with options so that PromEx can generate a config file for you. If you take the route where PromEx generates a config file for you, you must provide the following options:

    • :metrics_server_path - The path where the Prometheus metrics are exposed.

    • :metrics_server_port - The port that the metrics server is running on.

    • :metrics_server_scheme - Whether the app reachable via HTTPS or HTTP (default is https).

    • :metrics_server_host - The host to scrape for metrics.

    • :instance - This value denotes what instance the metrics are associated with. This value is a string and defaults to the hostname.

    • :job - This value denotes what job the metrics are associated with. This value is a string and defaults to the otp_app.

    • :agent_port - What port should GrafanaAgent run on.

    • :grpc_port - What port should GrafanaAgent gRPC server run on.

    • :scrape_interval - How often should GrafanaAgent scrape the application. The default is 15s.

    • :bearer_token - The bearer token that GrafanaAgent should attach to the request to your app.

    • :log_level - The logging level for GrafanaAgent.

    • :prometheus_url - The url to your Prometheus instance.

    • :prometheus_username - The username to the hosted Prometheus instance

    • :prometheus_password - The password to the hosted Prometheus instance

    • :template_file - The full path to the template used to render the agent config file.

    • all of these keys, and any additional ones, will be provided as EEx vars to the template file.

• :metrics_server - This key contains the configuration information needed to run a standalone HTTP server powered by Cowboy. This server provides a lightweight solution to serving up PromEx metrics. In order to use this standalone metrics server plug you need to have :plug and :plug_cowboy as dependencies in your project. Its configuration options are:

  • :port - The port that the Cowboy HTTP server should run on.

  • :path - The path that the metrics should be accessible at.

  • :protocol - The protocol that the metrics should be accessible over (:http or :https).

  • :pool_size - How many Cowboy processes should be in the pool to handle metrics related requests.

  • :auth_strategy - What authentication strategy should be used to authorize requests to your metrics. The Supported strategies are :none, :bearer, and :basic. Depending on what strategy is selected, you will need to also add additional config values. For :none (which is the default), no additional information needs to be provided. When using a :bearer strategy, you'll need to provide a :auth_token config value. When using :basic strategy you'll need to provide :auth_user and :auth_password values.

  • :auth_token - When using a :bearer authentication strategy, this field is required to validate the incoming request against a valid auth token.

  • :auth_user - When using a :basic authentication strategy, this field is required to validate the incoming request against a valid user.

  • :auth_password - When using a :bearer authentication strategy, this field is required to validate the incoming request against a valid password.

  • :cowboy_opts - A keyword list of any additional options that should be passed to Plug.Cowboy (see docs for more information https://hexdocs.pm/plug_cowboy/Plug.Cowboy.html). The :port and :transport_options options are handled by PromEx via the aforementioned config settings and so adding them again here has no effect.