Where can I see a detailed explanation of all the metrics ?

[ghost]

Prometheus provides many metrics, but I dont't known what it means of these, Where can I see a detailed explanation of all the metrics ?

[whittid4]

AWS Services that Publish CloudWatch Metrics would probably be your best bet. You can click through to the service you are interested in for more details

[SuperQ]

Metrics contain a HELP string, which has some information.

Detailed explanations of metrics provided by each collector is something we don't currently have. I've considered starting a per-collector (and probably per-platform) documentation tree, but it's a lot of work that I don't have time for right now.

[themanifold]

To be clear, is this a good place to look for a list of all metrics: https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/blob/master/collector/fixtures/e2e-output.txt ?

Is this what you're referring to when you say "Metrics" contain a HELP string?

For anyone else who is trying to trace down metrics, it's useful to look in docs/ as it contains rules that remap rule names.

As a slight aside:

I can see rules that remap metrics to other metrics, .e.g, node_disk_bytes_read gets remapped/recorded to node_disk_read_bytes_total, but where is node_disk_read_bytes_total defined? Is everything just dynamically generated from the golang collectors? Is that the reason why we have trouble syncing names between OSs (#150)?

[GuiBin2013]

@SuperQ
Hi, I want to show the cpu model name in the grafana.
but I can't find any cpu model name from all the metrics.
Is there any way that i can access to this info ?
Thanks in advance !

[pgier]

@GuiBin2013 I believe the cpu model name is not currently available via node_exporter metrics. If you are still interested in this feature, please create a new issue for it.