prometheus-setup.md

Prometheus

To send your metric data to Prometheus, you can either:

• Enable Prometheus' OTLP Receiver and use the OTLP exporter (best practice), or
• Use the Prometheus exporter, a MetricReader that starts an HTTP server that collects metrics and serializes to Prometheus text format on request.

Backend setup {#prometheus-setup}

To run a Prometheus server backend and begin scraping metrics, see the Prometheus getting started guide.

To enable the OTLP Receiver, see the Prometheus guide for enabling the OTLP Receiver.