How to monitor targets external to the cluster using user workload prometheus

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Issue

  • the need to monitor, using "user workloads monitoring" stack, applications external to the cluster.

  • IMPORTANT NOTE: this works fine and it's supported but it should be used in a limited way so as not to saturate internal prometheus instances with external targets metrics. Prometheus statefulset is consuming resources that are in relation with the cluster size.

  • IMPORTANT NOTE: promethes in the cluster should not be used as target of a remote write.

Environment

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.X

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