Prometheus: Static/Dynamic scraping on EKS
This note is a mental model for how Prometheus discovers and scrapes metrics in Kubernetes. The lens I want to keep throughout is: Where will the scrape config file sit? (Prometheus repo vs application repo) In which namespace will the serviceMonitor sit? (and how Prometheus finds it) At a high level there are two ways to tell Prometheus about a /metrics endpoint: Static via in the Prometheus config file. Dynamic via (CRD from Prometheus Operator) with label‑based discovery. ...