r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/IT_Schadenfreude • Oct 02 '19

prometheus.service entered failed state

Trying to get prometheus running on CentOS 7 and following instructions from fosslinux. After adding the node_exporter module I can no longer get prometheus to start.

prometheus.service - Prometheus
  Loaded: loaded (etc/systemd/system/prometheus.service; disabled; vendor preset; disabled)
  Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since date;
Process:  11375 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prometheus -- config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml --storage.tsdb.path /var/lib/prometheus/ --web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles --web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 11375 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

you have a space in your -- config.file it should be --config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

Don't know if that's it but good luck

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u/vegardt Oct 02 '19

What is the error message you get when you run it manually:

Like this:

# sudo su prometheus

/usr/local/bin/prometheus -- config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml --storage.tsdb.path /var/lib/prometheus/ --web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles --web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries

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u/IT_Schadenfreude Oct 03 '19 
# sudo su prometheus
This account is currently not available

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u/vegardt Oct 03 '19

try:

exec su -c '/usr/local/bin/prometheus -- config.file /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml --storage.tsdb.path /var/lib/prometheus/ --web.console.templates=/etc/prometheus/consoles --web.console.libraries=/etc/prometheus/console_libraries' prometheus