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Use a scraper to collect InfluxDB 2.0 metrics Use a scraper to collect InfluxDB 2.0 metrics Use a scraper defined in the InfluxDB 2.0 UI to collect system statistics into a bucket.
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You can use the InfluxDB 2.0 user interface (UI) to quickly define a scraper that can capture hardware and OS metrics from third-party systems and translate the data into the popular Prometheus format, which is supported by InfluxDB.

Follow the steps below to configure an InfluxDB 2.0 scraper to collect metrics generated by InfluxDB 2.0 into a bucket.

Configure an InfluxDB scraper to collect InfluxDB 2.0 metrics

Follow the steps here to capture Prometheus format data into an InfluxDB 2.0 bucket.

  1. Open a web browser to your InfluxDB 2.0 instance localhost:9999. The login screen for the UI (user interface) appears.
  2. Log in using your username and password. The Getting started with InfluxDB 2.0 screen appears.
  3. In the navigation bar on the left, click Organizations and then click the name of your organization. The Organization page appears for the selected organization.
  4. Click the Scrapers tab. A listing of any existing scrapers appears, listing the URL and the BUCKET name.
  5. Click Create Scraper. The Data Loading page appears with Add Scraper Target options to define a scraper.
  6. From the Bucket listing, select the bucket that you wan to be use to collect data.
  7. Enter the Target URL to use for the Prometheus /metrics HTTP endpoint. The default URL value is http://localhost:9100/metrics.
  8. Click Finish. The new scraper for Node Explorer appears as a new row in the listing of scrapers and displays the values for the URL and the BUCKET.

The new scraper for the Prometheus Node Exporter is now collecting data into the InfluxDB bucket you specified.

For information on creating InfluxDB 2.0 dashboards that use the Node Exporter data, see Visualize data with InfluxDB.