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diff --git a/docs/metrics-howto.rst b/docs/metrics-howto.rst index 56e69c1859..231c680786 100644 --- a/docs/metrics-howto.rst +++ b/docs/metrics-howto.rst @@ -1,24 +1,27 @@ How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus =============================================== -1: Install prometheus: - Follow instructions at http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/install/ +1. Install prometheus: -2: Enable synapse metrics: - Simply setting a (local) port number will enable it. Pick a port. - prometheus itself defaults to 9090, so starting just above that for - locally monitored services seems reasonable. E.g. 9092: + Follow instructions at http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/install/ - Add to homeserver.yaml:: +2. Enable synapse metrics: - metrics_port: 9092 + Simply setting a (local) port number will enable it. Pick a port. + prometheus itself defaults to 9090, so starting just above that for + locally monitored services seems reasonable. E.g. 9092: - Also ensure that ``enable_metrics`` is set to ``True``. + Add to homeserver.yaml:: + + metrics_port: 9092 + + Also ensure that ``enable_metrics`` is set to ``True``. - Restart synapse. + Restart synapse. -3: Add a prometheus target for synapse. It needs to set the ``metrics_path`` - to a non-default value:: +3. Add a prometheus target for synapse. + + It needs to set the ``metrics_path`` to a non-default value:: - job_name: "synapse" metrics_path: "/_synapse/metrics" @@ -26,6 +29,9 @@ How to monitor Synapse metrics using Prometheus - targets: "my.server.here:9092" + If your prometheus is older than 1.5.2, you will need to replace + ``static_configs`` in the above with ``target_groups``. + Standard Metric Names --------------------- |