1 The TimesTen Prometheus Exporter

The TimesTen Prometheus Exporter (TimesTen exporter or Exporter) together with Prometheus enable you to monitor the health and operation of your databases. The TimesTen exporter converts TimesTen metrics into a form supported by Prometheus. This simple integration enables you to add TimesTen to the systems that you can monitor with Prometheus.

This chapter gives an overview of Prometheus and introduces the Exporter. It explains the function of the ttExporter utility. The chapter demonstrates how to configure the Exporter and Prometheus either with client certificate authentication or with no authentication . It also shows you how to configure Prometheus to poll (scrape) for metrics. It then shows you how to start and stop the Exporter. The chapter concludes by describing the metrics that the Exporter supports.

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