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Monitoring a Batch Job with Prometheus Pushgateway

Prometheus Pushgateway provides a way to provide metrics to Prometheus with a push-based model. This is particularly useful for monitoring short-lived job processes. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to work with the Pushgateway API by pushing metrics to it. You will modify a simple job to implement monitoring for the job by pushing metrics to Pushgateway every time it runs.

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

45m

Published

Jun 12, 2020

Challenge

Modify the Cleanup Job to Push a Metric to Pushgateway to Signal When It Runs
1. Log in to the Job server.
2. Edit the cleanup job script:
```
sudo vi /etc/jobs/cleanup.sh
```
3. Implement a call to the Pushgateway API at the end of the script to signal that the job ran:
```
num_files=$(rm -vrif /etc/debug_data/* | wc -l)

cat << EOF | curl --data-binary @- http://prometheus:9091/metrics/job/debug_cleanup/instance/10.0.1.102
  # TYPE job_executed_successful gauge
  job_executed_successful 1
EOF
```
4. Access the Prometheus expression browser (http://<PROMETHEUS_SERVER_PUBLIC_IP>:9090/graph), and run a query to verify you can see metric data pushed to Pushgateway by the cleanup job script. Note you may have to wait a minute or so for the job to execute so you can see your changes.
```
job_executed_successful[5m]
```
Challenge

Modify the Cleanup Job to Push a Metric to Pushgateway Representing the Number of Files Deleted in Each Execution
1. Edit the cleanup job script again:
```
sudo vi /etc/jobs/cleanup.sh
```
2. Implement a call to the Pushgateway API at the end of the script to signal that the job ran:
```
num_files=$(rm -vrif /etc/debug_data/* | wc -l)

cat << EOF | curl --data-binary @- http://prometheus:9091/metrics/job/debug_cleanup/instance/10.0.1.102
  # TYPE job_executed_successful gauge
  job_executed_successful 1
  # TYPE job_num_files_deleted gauge
  job_num_files_deleted $num_files
EOF
```
3. Access the expression browser again and verify you can see the new metric in Prometheus. Note you may have to wait a minute or so for the job to execute so you can see your changes.
```
job_num_files_deleted[5m]
```

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