prometheus setup howto

README.md

@@ -100,3 +100,19 @@ This check will verify whether the alarm for temp1 is off
 
 a `/metrics` endpoint is exposed with the common `metric=value` format, which is easily to integrate into your
 prometheus instance.
+
+Adding something like this at the end of the `scrape_configs` section of your `prometheus.yml` could be
+enough:
+
+    - job_name: 'squeow'
+  
+      # Override the global default and scrape targets from this job every 5 seconds.
+      scrape_interval: 5s
+      scrape_timeout: 5s
+  
+      # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
+      # scheme defaults to 'http'.
+  
+      static_configs:
+        - targets: ['localhost:8000']
+