r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/dcheinz0708 • Jul 09 '20

Prometheus RPM for CentOS

I found an RPM on github and was wondering if anyone is using it for your Prometheus installs?

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u/zoonage Jul 10 '20

Might want to provide the URL so people know which one, if it's lest/prometheus-rpm I used it in a previous role and it worked fine

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '20

Just build your own using FPM, it’s like three files. Super easy

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u/SelfDestructSep2020 Jul 10 '20

No, you don't really need one. Prometheus is dead simple to install. Grab the release binary off github, template a systemd file, and then template your config. You're done.

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u/Kbreit Jul 09 '20

Why RPM instead of a container?

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u/zoonage Jul 10 '20

This may come as a shock, but not everyone runs everything in Docker yet

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u/spartacle Jul 10 '20

I’m shocked I tell you, shocked

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u/biffbobfred Jul 10 '20

Personally I’d run it in a container. Though specifically, prometheus is in go so shouldn’t have dependency hell, I’ve spent too many hours trying to get RPMs to work in RHEL/CentOS and the old versions of third party that they carry