---
title: "Prometheus Exporters | Tutorial and Best Practices"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/prometheus-exporters-tutorial-and-best-practices-ot9h-0tku
source_url: https://www.containiq.com/post/prometheus-exporters
type: article
source: "ContainIQ"
published: 2022-09-30T18:48:24.152Z
updated: 2022-09-30T18:48:24.151Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "docker", "cicd", "elk", "monitoring", "prometheus"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 6
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Prometheus Exporters | Tutorial and Best Practices

**[ContainIQ](https://daily.dev/sources/containiq)** · 11 min read · 6 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Prometheus event monitoring and alerting is built on the accuracy and comprehensiveness of metric data. An exporter is considered essential in any cloud-native ecosystem that includes applications that don’t expose Prometheus-supported metrics by default. A Prometheus exporter acts as a proxy between applications and the Prometheus server. In this section, we’ll discuss how to build a basic exporter for a Kubernetes cluster using a Python script.

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Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#elk](https://daily.dev/tags/elk), [#monitoring](https://daily.dev/tags/monitoring), [#prometheus](https://daily.dev/tags/prometheus)

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