Alibaba Cloud Prometheus Service provides the RemoteWrite feature. You can use this feature to store the monitoring data of Prometheus Service to remote databases. This topic describes how to use the RemoteWrite feature to connect Alibaba Cloud Prometheus Service with the open source Prometheus. The feature provides an efficient solution to store monitoring data.

Step 1: Create a RemoteWrite and obtain the read and write URLs

  1. Log on to the ARMS console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Prometheus Monitoring.
  3. In the upper-left corner of the page, select the destination region. On the Prometheus Monitoring page, click Access prometheus monitoring.
  4. On the Access Prometheus monitoring page, click Remote Write Prometheus.
  5. In Step 1 of the wizard, specify the RemoteWrite Name parameter and click Next.
  6. In Step 2, copy and save the generated value of the Prometheus Remote Write Url parameter, and then click Next.
  7. In Step 3, copy and save the generated value of the Prometheus Remote Read Url parameter, and then close the wizard.

Step 2: Configure Prometheus

  1. Install Prometheus. For information about how to install Prometheus, see Official documentation.
  2. Open the Prometheus.yaml configuration file and append the following content to the file. Replace the remote_write and remote_read URLs with the URLs that you obtained in Step 1: Create a RemoteWrite and obtain the read and write URLs. Then, save the file.
    global:
  scrape_interval:     15s
  evaluation_interval: 15s
scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'prometheus'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['localhost:9090']
remote_write:
  - url: "http://ts-xxxxxxxxxxxx.hitsdb.rds.aliyuncs.com:3242/api/prom_write"
    basic_auth:   
      // The username and password must conform to the naming conventions of an AK/SK pair. The AK/SK pair must be authorized to call the GetPrometheusApiToken operation.
      username: access-key-id
      password: access-key-secret
remote_read:
  - url: "http://ts-xxxxxxxxxxxx.hitsdb.rds.aliyuncs.com:3242/api/prom_read"
    read_recent: true

Use remote storage for OpenTelemetry

  1. Configure OpenTelemetry tracking in the business code. [Demo]
    package stat

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric"
    "time"
)

var buyCounter metric.Int64Counter

func init() {
    fmt.Println(time.Now(), " - initMetrics start......")
    meter := otel.GetMeterProvider().Meter("github.com/liguozhong/prometheus-arms-aliyun-go-demo")
    buyCounter = metric.Must(meter).NewInt64Counter(
        "buy_total",
        metric.WithDescription("Measures  buy"),
    )
}

func DoBuy() (string, error) {
    buyCounter.Add(context.Background(), 1)
    return "buy success", nil
}
  2. OpenTelemetry initializes Meter and connects to Prometheus. [Demo]
    package stat

import (
    "context"
    prometheusPushExporter "go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/exporters/metric/cortex"
    prometheusExporter "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/metric/prometheus"

    "errors"
    "fmt"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/label"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/controller/pull"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/controller/push"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/processor/basic"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric/selector/simple"
    "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/resource"
    "net/http"
    "time"

    _ "net/http/pprof"
)

func InitMeter(app string, push bool) error {
    fmt.Println(time.Now(), " - initMeter start......")
    if push {
        fmt.Println(time.Now(), " - initMeter opentelemetry push......")
        remoteUrl := "http://region.arms.aliyuncs.com/prometheus/.. /.. /.. /../api/v3/write"
        ak := "ak"
        sk := "sk"
        return initPushMeter(app, remoteUrl, ak, sk)
    }
    fmt.Println(time.Now(), " - initMeter opentelemetry pull......")
    return initPullMeter(app)
}

func initPushMeter(regionId string, remoteWriteUrl string, ak string, sk string) error {
    fmt.Println(time.Now(), " - initPushMeter start......")
    var validatedStandardConfig = prometheusPushExporter.Config{
        Endpoint:      remoteWriteUrl,
        Name:          "AliyunConfig",
        RemoteTimeout: 30 * time.Second,
        PushInterval:  10 * time.Second,
        Quantiles:     []float64{0.5, 0.9, 0.95, 0.99},
        BasicAuth: map[string]string{
            "username": ak,
            "password": sk,
        },
    }
    if validatedStandardConfig.Endpoint == "" {
        return errors.New(" validatedStandardConfig.Endpoint==empty.regionId:" + regionId)
    }
    fmt.Println("Success: Created Config struct")
    r, err := resource.New(context.Background(),
        resource.WithAttributes(
            label.String("cluster", "test-otel"),
            label.String("app", "buy")))
    if err ! = nil {
        fmt.Println("resource Error:", err)
    }
    pusher, err := prometheusPushExporter.InstallNewPipeline(validatedStandardConfig,
        push.WithPeriod(30*time.Second), push.WithResource(r))
    if err ! = nil {
        fmt.Println("InstallNewPipeline Error:", err)
    }
    otel.SetMeterProvider(pusher.MeterProvider())
    return nil
}

func initPullMeter(app string) error {
    fmt.Println(time.Now(), " - initPullMeter start......")
    r, err := resource.New(context.Background(),
        resource.WithAttributes(
            label.String("cluster", "test-otel"),
            label.String("app", app)))
    if err ! = nil {
        fmt.Println("resource Error:", err)
    }
    exporter, err := prometheusExporter.NewExportPipeline(
        prometheusExporter.Config{
            DefaultHistogramBoundaries: []float64{-0.5, 1},
        },
        pull.WithCachePeriod(0),
        pull.WithResource(r),
    )
    if err ! = nil {
        return err
    }
    http.HandleFunc("/opentelemetry", exporter.ServeHTTP)
    otel.SetMeterProvider(exporter.MeterProvider())
    return nil
}

func initOtlpProvider(regionId string) (*push.Controller, error) {
    exporter, err := otlp.NewExporter(
        context.Background(),
        otlp.WithInsecure(),
        otlp.WithAddress(regionId+"-intranet.arms.aliyuncs.com:8000"),
    )
    if err ! = nil {
        return nil, err
    }

    pusher := push.New(
        basic.New(
            simple.NewWithExactDistribution(),
            exporter,
        ),
        exporter,
        push.WithPeriod(30*time.Second),
    )

    otel.SetMeterProvider(pusher.MeterProvider())
    pusher.Start()

    return pusher, err
}
  3. Initialize the business endpoint and start the OpenTelemetry function. [Demo]
    package pkg

import (
    "fmt"
    stat "github.com/liguozhong/prometheus-arms-aliyun-go-demo/pkg/opentelemetry"
    "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promhttp"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "strconv"
)

type Server struct {
    port int
}

func NewServer(port int) *Server {
    return &Server{
        port: port,
    }
}

func (s *Server) Run() error {
    port := ":" + strconv.Itoa(s.port)
    path := "/metrics"
    service := "/buy"
    http.Handle(path, promhttp.Handler()) // Initializes an HTTP handler.
    http.HandleFunc(service, func(writer http.ResponseWriter, request *http.Request) {
        content, err := stat.DoBuy()
        if err ! = nil {
            io.WriteString(writer, err.Error())
            return
        }
        io.WriteString(writer, content)
    })
    stat.InitMeter("buy2", true)
    fmt.Println("http.url: http://localhost" + port + path)
    fmt.Println("service.url: http://localhost" + port + service)
    err := http.ListenAndServe(port, nil)
    if err ! = nil {
        return err
    }
    return nil
}
  4. View the dependencies of the Go module. [Demo]
    module github.com/liguozhong/prometheus-arms-aliyun-go-demo

go 1.12

require (
    github.com/go-kit/kit v0.9.0
    github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.7.1
    go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/exporters/metric/cortex v0.15.0
    go.opentelemetry.io/otel v0.15.0
    go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/metric/prometheus v0.15.0
    go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp v0.15.0
    go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v0.15.0
    golang.org/x/text v0.3.3 // indirect
)
  5. View the data in Grafana.View the data of OpenTelemetry