# iank: initial file from 2.24, added to empty ARGS.
-# Set the command-line arguments to pass to the server.
+# config.file and tsdb.path are to configure the upstream version to use
+# the default locations of the debian package.
-ARGS="--web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:9090 --web.external-url=https://i.b8.nz:9091"
+# Sets the command-line arguments to pass to the server. to see all options, run prometheus --help
+ARGS="--web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:9090
+--web.external-url=https://i.b8.nz:9091
+--log.level=info
+--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
+--storage.tsdb.path=/var/lib/prometheus/metrics2/"
-
-# Prometheus supports the following options:
-# --config.file="/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml"
-# Prometheus configuration file path.
-# --web.listen-address="0.0.0.0:9090"
-# Address to listen on for UI, API, and telemetry.
-# --web.read-timeout=5m Maximum duration before timing out read of the
-# request, and closing idle connections.
-# --web.max-connections=512 Maximum number of simultaneous connections.
-# --web.external-url=<URL> The URL under which Prometheus is externally
-# reachable (for example, if Prometheus is served
-# via a reverse proxy). Used for generating
-# relative and absolute links back to Prometheus
-# itself. If the URL has a path portion, it will
-# be used to prefix all HTTP endpoints served by
-# Prometheus. If omitted, relevant URL components
-# will be derived automatically.
-# --web.route-prefix=<path> Prefix for the internal routes of web endpoints.
-# Defaults to path of --web.external-url.
-# --web.local-assets="/usr/share/prometheus/web/"
-# Path to static asset/templates directory.
-# --web.user-assets=<path> Path to user asset directory, available at
-# /user.
-# --web.enable-lifecycle Enable shutdown and reload via HTTP request.
-# --web.enable-admin-api Enable API endpoints for admin control actions.
-# --web.console.templates="/etc/prometheus/consoles"
-# Path to the console template directory,
-# available at /consoles.
-# --web.console.libraries="/etc/prometheus/console_libraries"
-# Path to the console library directory.
-# --web.page-title="Prometheus Time Series Collection and Processing Server"
-# Document title of Prometheus instance.
-# --web.cors.origin=".*" Regex for CORS origin. It is fully anchored.
-# Example: 'https?://(domain1|domain2)\.com'
-# --storage.tsdb.path="/var/lib/prometheus/metrics2/"
-# Base path for metrics storage.
-# --storage.tsdb.retention=15d
-# [DEPRECATED] How long to retain samples in
-# storage. This flag has been deprecated, use
-# "storage.tsdb.retention.time" instead
-# --storage.tsdb.retention.time=15d
-# How long to retain samples in storage. When this
-# flag is set it overrides
-# "storage.tsdb.retention".
-# If neither this flag nor "storage.tsdb.retention"
-# nor "storage.tsdb.retention.size" is set, the
-# retention time defaults to 15d.
-# Units Supported: y, w, d, h, m, s, ms.
-# --storage.tsdb.retention.size=
-# [EXPERIMENTAL] Maximum number of bytes that can
-# be stored for blocks. Units supported: KB, MB,
-# GB, TB, PB. This flag is experimental and can be
-# changed in future releases.
-# --storage.tsdb.use-lockfile
-# Create a lockfile in data directory.
-# --storage.tsdb.allow-overlapping-blocks
-# [EXPERIMENTAL] Allow overlapping blocks, which
-# in turn enables vertical compaction and
-# vertical query merge.
-# --storage.tsdb.wal-compression
-# Compress the tsdb WAL.
-# --storage.remote.flush-deadline=<duration>
-# How long to wait flushing sample on shutdown or
-# config reload.
-# --storage.remote.read-sample-limit=5e7
-# Maximum overall number of samples to return via
-# the remote read interface, in a single query. 0
-# means no limit. This limit is ignored for
-# streamed response types.
-# --storage.remote.read-concurrent-limit=10
-# Maximum number of concurrent remote read calls.
-# 0 means no limit.
-# --storage.remote.read-max-bytes-in-frame=1048576
-# Maximum number of bytes in a single frame for
-# streaming remote read response types before
-# marshalling. Note that client might have limit on
-# frame size as well. 1MB as recommended by
-# protobuf by default.
-# --rules.alert.for-outage-tolerance=1h
-# Max time to tolerate prometheus outage for
-# restoring "for" state of alert.
-# --rules.alert.for-grace-period=10m
-# Minimum duration between alert and restored "for"
-# state. This is maintained only for alerts with
-# configured "for" time greater than grace period.
-# --rules.alert.resend-delay=1m
-# Minimum amount of time to wait before resending
-# an alert to Alertmanager.
-# --alertmanager.notification-queue-capacity=10000
-# The capacity of the queue for pending
-# Alertmanager notifications.
-# --alertmanager.timeout=10s
-# Timeout for sending alerts to Alertmanager.
-# --query.lookback-delta=5m The maximum lookback duration for retrieving
-# metrics during expression evaluations and
-# federation.
-# --query.timeout=2m Maximum time a query may take before being
-# aborted.
-# --query.max-concurrency=20
-# Maximum number of queries executed concurrently.
-# --query.max-samples=50000000
-# Maximum number of samples a single query can load
-# into memory. Note that queries will fail if they
-# try to load more samples than this into memory,
-# so this also limits the number of samples a query
-# can return.
-# --log.level=info Only log messages with the given severity or
-# above. One of: [debug, info, warn, error]
-# --log.format=logfmt Output format of log messages. One of: [logfmt,
-# json]
+# for testing
+#--query.lookback-delta=15s"