Commit 9a5d1f75 authored by Tobias Schmidt's avatar Tobias Schmidt

Clarify DNS service discovery relationship to DNS-SD

It's a common misconception to call any DNS SRV record based discovery
approach "DNS-SD". The latter is a [ratified IETF standard][rfc6763]
which specifies a naming schema and lookup mechanism in order to provide
additional structured information. Prometheus only supports basic SRV
record lookups.

[rfc6763]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6763
parent c976c6e2
......@@ -309,18 +309,22 @@ feature to replace the special `__address__` label.
### `<dns_sd_config>`
A DNS-SD configuration allows specifying a set of DNS record names which
are periodically queried to discover a list of targets (host-port pairs). The
A DNS-based service discovery configuration allows specifying a set of DNS
domain names which are periodically queried to discover a list of targets. The
DNS servers to be contacted are read from `/etc/resolv.conf`.
During the [relabeling phase](#relabel_config), the meta
label `__meta_dns_name` is available on each target and is set to the SRV
This service discovery method only supports basic DNS A, AAAA and SRV record
queries, but not the advanced DNS-SD approach specified in
[RFC6763](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6763).
During the [relabeling phase](#relabel_config), the meta label
`__meta_dns_name` is available on each target and is set to the
record name that produced the discovered target.
```
# A list of DNS SRV record names to be queried.
# A list of DNS domain names to be queried.
names:
[ - <record_name> ]
[ - <domain_name> ]
# The type of DNS query to perform.
[ type: <query_type> | default = 'SRV' ]
......@@ -332,7 +336,7 @@ names:
[ refresh_interval: <duration> | default = 30s ]
```
Where `<record_name>` is any DNS SRV record name.
Where `<domain_name>` is a valid DNS domain name.
Where `<query_type>` is `SRV`, `A`, or `AAAA`.
### `<ec2_sd_config>`
......
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