Prometheus Exporters | Tutorial and Best Practices

Prometheus event monitoring and alerting is built on the accuracy and comprehensiveness of metric data. An exporter is considered essential in any cloud-native ecosystem that includes applications that don’t expose Prometheus-supported metrics by default. A Prometheus exporter acts as a proxy between applications and the Prometheus server. In this section, we’ll discuss how to build a basic exporter for a Kubernetes cluster using a Python script.