Commit f0109fb5 authored by Jimmy Cuadra's avatar Jimmy Cuadra

Clarify that the in_cluster option only affects discovery.

It wasn't clear to me that the `in_cluster` option for a
`kubernetes_sd_config` only affected authentication for service
discovery, and that to actually scrape the targets, it was still
necessary to explicitly set authentication options like `tls_config` and
`bearer_token_file`, for example, when scraping the Kubernetes
apiserver.

This patch clarifies that in the documentation for `in_cluster`, and
adds a link to the example Prometheus configuration for Kubernetes in
the Prometheus repo that explained this distinction better, and also
provides a useful real-world example of how to monitor a Kubernetes
cluster with Prometheus.
parent 21fde0b3
......@@ -539,8 +539,16 @@ api_servers:
# The Kubernetes role of entities that should be discovered.
role: <role>
# Run in cluster. This will use the automounted CA certificate and bearer
# token file at /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ in the pod.
# When true, Prometheus will assume it is being run inside a Kubernetes pod.
# This will use the CA certificate and authentication token provided by the
# Kubernetes service account, mounted at
# /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt and
# /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token, respectively.
#
# Note that this only handles authentication for service discovery. If the
# target itself requires authentication to be scraped, that must be
# configured separately via `tls_config`, `bearer_token`, etc. at the
# `scrape_config` level.
[ in_cluster: <boolean> ]
# Optional authentication information used to authenticate to the API server.
......@@ -568,9 +576,11 @@ tls_config:
[ retry_interval: <duration> | default = 1s ]
```
Where `<role>` must be `endpoint`, `service`, `pod`, `container`, `node`, or `apiserver`.
See [this example Prometheus configuration file](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/master/documentation/examples/prometheus-kubernetes.yml)
for a detailed example of configuring Prometheus for Kubernetes.
### `<marathon_sd_config>`
CAUTION: Marathon SD is in beta: breaking changes to configuration are still
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