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Use Telegraf{{% oss-only %}}, InfluxDB scrapers,{{% /oss-only %}} or the prometheus.scrape Flux function to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and store them in InfluxDB.

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• Use Telegraf
• Use an InfluxDB scraper
• Use prometheus.scrape()

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• Use Telegraf
• Use prometheus.scrape()

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Use Telegraf

To use Telegraf to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and write them to InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}}, follow these steps:

1. Add the Prometheus input plugin to your Telegraf configuration file.
   1. Set the urls to scrape metrics from.
   2. Set the metric_version configuration option to specify which metric parsing version to use (version 2 is recommended).
2. Add the InfluxDB v2 output plugin to your Telegraf configuration file and configure it to write to InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}}.

Example telegraf.conf

# ...

## Collect Prometheus formatted metrics
[[inputs.prometheus]]
  urls = ["http://example.com/metrics"]
  metric_version = 2

## Write Prometheus formatted metrics to InfluxDB
[[outputs.influxdb_v2]]
  urls = ["http://localhost:8086"]
  token = "$INFLUX_TOKEN"
  organization = "example-org"
  bucket = "example-bucket"

# ...

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Use an InfluxDB scraper

InfluxDB scrapers automatically scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint at a regular interval. For information about setting up an InfluxDB scraper, see Scrape data using InfluxDB scrapers.

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Use prometheus.scrape()

To use the prometheus.scrape() Flux function to scrape Prometheus-formatted metrics from an HTTP-accessible endpoint and write them to InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}}, do the following in your Flux script:

1. Import the experimental/prometheus package.
2. Use prometheus.scrape() and provide the URL to scrape metrics from.
3. Use to() and specify the InfluxDB{{% cloud-only %}} Cloud{{% /cloud-only %}} bucket to write the scraped metrics to.

Example Flux script

import "experimental/prometheus"

prometheus.scrape(url: "http://example.com/metrics")
    |> to(bucket: "example-bucket")

4. (Optional) To scrape Prometheus metrics at regular intervals using Flux, add your Flux scraping script as an InfluxDB task.

For information about scraping Prometheus-formatted metrics with prometheus.scrape(), see Scrape Prometheus metrics with Flux.