Sample SpringBoot Prometheus Remote Writer

This project implements the remote_writer interface for prometheus to capture metrics and serialize each sample as json. It is intended just as an example to show how to do it simple with java, because most examples are developed in golang.

Building

To recompile protobuf files, you may have protoc (protobuf compiler). In linux, you can install protobuf-compiler package to provide it.

The project can be built with

mvn clean install

Testing the component

To test it, run with

mvn spring-boot:run

and configure prometheus adding

remote_write:
  - url: 'http://<your-endpoint>/write'