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  2. Quick start guide
  3. Wide events vs. time series
  4. Ingesting data
    1. Better Stack collector
    2. Vector
    3. OpenTelemetry
    4. Ingesting via HTTP API
    5. Ingesting metrics
      1. Prometheus scrape (recommended)
      2. Prometheus push
    6. Ingesting logs
    7. Migrating to Better Stack
  5. Using the product
    1. Transforming ingested data
    2. Querying data
    3. Tracing
    4. Alerts
  6. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources API
    3. Source groups API
    4. Metrics API
    5. Connections API
    6. Query API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Better Stack Prometheus metrics

Start collecting metrics in 5 minutes

How you would like to collect your Prometheus metrics?

Forward metrics from your Prometheus instance

Collect metrics from your Prometheus instance using Remote-Write.

1. Configure your Prometheus

Add a remote_write section to your Prometheus config file:

prometheus.yml
global:
  scrape_interval: 15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s

# your existing configuration

remote_write:
  - url: "https://$INGESTING_HOST/metrics"
    authorization:
      type: Bearer
      credentials: "$SOURCE_TOKEN"

Can't set the Authorization header?

Some providers allow you to set up Remote-Write using only a URL, without any additional HTTP headers. In that case, include the token in a query parameter.

Use https://$INGESTING_HOST/metrics?source_token=$SOURCE_TOKEN.

2. Reload the configuration

Reload the configuration of your Prometheus server:

Select your platform:

Reload Prometheus server
ps -A | grep prometheus | tr -s ' ' | xargs | cut -f1 -d' ' | xargs kill -HUP

3. See your metrics in Better Stack 🎉

You should see your metrics in the Prometheus dashboard.

Need help?

Please let us know at hello@betterstack.com.
We're happy to help! 🙏

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