Your locally running Prometheus instance needs to be properly configured in order to access Node Exporter metrics. The following [`scrape_config`](../prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#<scrape_config>) block (in a `prometheus.yml` configuration file) will tell the Prometheus instance to scrape from the Node Exporter via `localhost:9100`:
Your locally running Prometheus instance needs to be properly configured in order to access Node Exporter metrics. The following [`scrape_config`](../prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#<scrape_config>) block (in a `prometheus.yml` configuration file) will tell the Prometheus instance to scrape from the Node Exporter via `localhost:9100`: