Prometheus init file for RHEL 5 or 6

prometheus

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/prometheus
#
# Prometheus monitoring server
#
#  chkconfig: 2345 20 80 Read
#  description: Prometheus monitoring server
#  processname: prometheus

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

PROGNAME=prometheus
PROG=/usr/bin/local/$PROGNAME
USER=prometheus
LOGFILE=/var/log/prometheus/prometheus.log
DATADIR=/var/data/prometheus
LOCKFILE=/var/run/$PROGNAME.pid
CONFIG_FILE=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
ALERT_MGR_URL=localhost:9093

start() {
    echo -n "Starting $PROGNAME: "
    daemon --user $USER --pidfile="$LOCKFILE" "$PROG -config.file $CONFIG_FILE -storage.local.path $DATADIR -alertmanager.url $ALERT_MGR_URL &>$LOGFILE &"
    echo $(pidofproc $PROGNAME) >$LOCKFILE
    echo
}

stop() {
    echo -n "Shutting down $PROGNAME: "
    killproc $PROGNAME
    rm -f $LOCKFILE
    echo
}


case "$1" in
    start)
    start
    ;;
    stop)
    stop
    ;;
    status)
    status $PROGNAME
    ;;
    restart)
    stop
    start
    ;;
    reload)
    echo "Sending SIGHUP to $PROGNAME"
    kill -SIGHUP $(pidofproc $PROGNAME)
    ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: <servicename> {start|stop|status|reload|restart}"
        exit 1
    ;;
esac

hi, man. i get a error like the follow with your init file.

Error parsing commandline arguments: unknown short flag '-c'
prometheus: error: unknown short flag '-c'

In case anyone comes across this in the future, the: unknown short flag '-c' is actually an issue with how switches are handled in Prometheus 2.0.

The new argument is --config.file $CONFIG_FILE

Also these arguments have to be removed: -storage.local.path $DATADIR -alertmanager.url $ALERT_MGR_URL &>$LOGFILE

As Storage and Alertmanager are handled differently in Prometheus 2.0 or greater.

Documented information here: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/2.0/migration/

Thanks for publishing. It helped me run prometheus in old EC2 Linux AMI