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01 AWS
The AWS datasource assumes that you have appropriate credentials and environment variables set to access AWS resources. The custom fork of gomplate adds a new command to the existing AWS commands.
Unfortunately there is not a specific docker command but generic examples are below.
Looping
yaml
server:
log_level: debug
metrics:
wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-normal
global:
scrape_interval: 60s
remote_write:
- url: https://prometheus-us-central1.grafana.net/api/prom/push
basic_auth:
username: xyz
password: secretpassword
configs:
- name: default
scrape_configs:
{{ range $index , $value := aws.EC2Query "tag:service=webhost" -}}
- job_name: {{ $value.InstanceId }}
static_configs:
- targets:
- {{ $value.PrivateDnsName }}
{{ end -}}
The aws.EC2Query
command is a new command added for Grafana Agent and takes a string in the DescribeInstances format
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