diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c17eb8cf2..88c27741b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
## 2.55.0-rc.0 / 2024-09-20
* [FEATURE] Support UTF-8 characters in label names - feature flag `utf8-names`. #14482, #14880, #14736, #14727
-* [FEATURE] Support config reload automatically - feature flag `auto-reload-config`. #14769
* [FEATURE] Scraping: Add the ability to set custom `http_headers` in config. #14817
* [FEATURE] Scraping: Support feature flag `created-timestamp-zero-ingestion` in OpenMetrics. #14356, #14815
* [FEATURE] Scraping: `scrape_failure_log_file` option to log failures to a file. #14734
diff --git a/cmd/prometheus/main.go b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
index ee6cd0c2e..b3bcb78b7 100644
--- a/cmd/prometheus/main.go
+++ b/cmd/prometheus/main.go
@@ -154,9 +154,6 @@ type flagConfig struct {
RemoteFlushDeadline model.Duration
nameEscapingScheme string
- enableAutoReload bool
- autoReloadInterval model.Duration
-
featureList []string
memlimitRatio float64
// These options are extracted from featureList
@@ -215,12 +212,6 @@ func (c *flagConfig) setFeatureListOptions(logger log.Logger) error {
case "auto-gomaxprocs":
c.enableAutoGOMAXPROCS = true
level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Automatically set GOMAXPROCS to match Linux container CPU quota")
- case "auto-reload-config":
- c.enableAutoReload = true
- if s := time.Duration(c.autoReloadInterval).Seconds(); s > 0 && s < 1 {
- c.autoReloadInterval, _ = model.ParseDuration("1s")
- }
- level.Info(logger).Log("msg", fmt.Sprintf("Enabled automatic configuration file reloading. Checking for configuration changes every %s.", c.autoReloadInterval))
case "auto-gomemlimit":
c.enableAutoGOMEMLIMIT = true
level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Automatically set GOMEMLIMIT to match Linux container or system memory limit")
@@ -311,9 +302,6 @@ func main() {
a.Flag("config.file", "Prometheus configuration file path.").
Default("prometheus.yml").StringVar(&cfg.configFile)
- a.Flag("config.auto-reload-interval", "Specifies the interval for checking and automatically reloading the Prometheus configuration file upon detecting changes.").
- Default("30s").SetValue(&cfg.autoReloadInterval)
-
a.Flag("web.listen-address", "Address to listen on for UI, API, and telemetry. Can be repeated.").
Default("0.0.0.0:9090").StringsVar(&cfg.web.ListenAddresses)
@@ -504,7 +492,7 @@ func main() {
a.Flag("scrape.name-escaping-scheme", `Method for escaping legacy invalid names when sending to Prometheus that does not support UTF-8. Can be one of "values", "underscores", or "dots".`).Default(scrape.DefaultNameEscapingScheme.String()).StringVar(&cfg.nameEscapingScheme)
- a.Flag("enable-feature", "Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: agent, auto-gomaxprocs, auto-gomemlimit, auto-reload-config, concurrent-rule-eval, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, delayed-compaction, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, extra-scrape-metrics, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, native-histograms, new-service-discovery-manager, no-default-scrape-port, otlp-write-receiver, promql-experimental-functions, promql-delayed-name-removal, promql-per-step-stats, remote-write-receiver (DEPRECATED), utf8-names. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details.").
+ a.Flag("enable-feature", "Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: agent, auto-gomaxprocs, auto-gomemlimit, concurrent-rule-eval, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, delayed-compaction, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, extra-scrape-metrics, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, native-histograms, new-service-discovery-manager, no-default-scrape-port, otlp-write-receiver, promql-experimental-functions, promql-delayed-name-removal, promql-per-step-stats, remote-write-receiver (DEPRECATED), utf8-names. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details.").
Default("").StringsVar(&cfg.featureList)
promlogflag.AddFlags(a, &cfg.promlogConfig)
@@ -1142,15 +1130,6 @@ func main() {
hup := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
signal.Notify(hup, syscall.SIGHUP)
cancel := make(chan struct{})
-
- var checksum string
- if cfg.enableAutoReload {
- checksum, err = config.GenerateChecksum(cfg.configFile)
- if err != nil {
- level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Failed to generate initial checksum for configuration file", "err", err)
- }
- }
-
g.Add(
func() error {
<-reloadReady.C
@@ -1160,12 +1139,6 @@ func main() {
case <-hup:
if err := reloadConfig(cfg.configFile, cfg.enableExpandExternalLabels, cfg.tsdb.EnableExemplarStorage, logger, noStepSubqueryInterval, reloaders...); err != nil {
level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Error reloading config", "err", err)
- } else if cfg.enableAutoReload {
- if currentChecksum, err := config.GenerateChecksum(cfg.configFile); err == nil {
- checksum = currentChecksum
- } else {
- level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Failed to generate checksum during configuration reload", "err", err)
- }
}
case rc := <-webHandler.Reload():
if err := reloadConfig(cfg.configFile, cfg.enableExpandExternalLabels, cfg.tsdb.EnableExemplarStorage, logger, noStepSubqueryInterval, reloaders...); err != nil {
@@ -1173,32 +1146,6 @@ func main() {
rc <- err
} else {
rc <- nil
- if cfg.enableAutoReload {
- if currentChecksum, err := config.GenerateChecksum(cfg.configFile); err == nil {
- checksum = currentChecksum
- } else {
- level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Failed to generate checksum during configuration reload", "err", err)
- }
- }
- }
- case <-time.Tick(time.Duration(cfg.autoReloadInterval)):
- if !cfg.enableAutoReload {
- continue
- }
- currentChecksum, err := config.GenerateChecksum(cfg.configFile)
- if err != nil {
- level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Failed to generate checksum during configuration reload", "err", err)
- continue
- }
- if currentChecksum == checksum {
- continue
- }
- level.Info(logger).Log("msg", "Configuration file change detected, reloading the configuration.")
-
- if err := reloadConfig(cfg.configFile, cfg.enableExpandExternalLabels, cfg.tsdb.EnableExemplarStorage, logger, noStepSubqueryInterval, reloaders...); err != nil {
- level.Error(logger).Log("msg", "Error reloading config", "err", err)
- } else {
- checksum = currentChecksum
}
case <-cancel:
return nil
diff --git a/config/reload.go b/config/reload.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 8be1b28d8..000000000
--- a/config/reload.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 The Prometheus Authors
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package config
-
-import (
- "crypto/sha256"
- "encoding/hex"
- "fmt"
- "os"
- "path/filepath"
-
- "gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
-)
-
-type ExternalFilesConfig struct {
- RuleFiles []string `yaml:"rule_files"`
- ScrapeConfigFiles []string `yaml:"scrape_config_files"`
-}
-
-// GenerateChecksum generates a checksum of the YAML file and the files it references.
-func GenerateChecksum(yamlFilePath string) (string, error) {
- hash := sha256.New()
-
- yamlContent, err := os.ReadFile(yamlFilePath)
- if err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error reading YAML file: %w", err)
- }
- _, err = hash.Write(yamlContent)
- if err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error writing YAML file to hash: %w", err)
- }
-
- var config ExternalFilesConfig
- if err := yaml.Unmarshal(yamlContent, &config); err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error unmarshalling YAML: %w", err)
- }
-
- dir := filepath.Dir(yamlFilePath)
-
- for i, file := range config.RuleFiles {
- config.RuleFiles[i] = filepath.Join(dir, file)
- }
- for i, file := range config.ScrapeConfigFiles {
- config.ScrapeConfigFiles[i] = filepath.Join(dir, file)
- }
-
- files := map[string][]string{
- "r": config.RuleFiles, // "r" for rule files
- "s": config.ScrapeConfigFiles, // "s" for scrape config files
- }
-
- for _, prefix := range []string{"r", "s"} {
- for _, pattern := range files[prefix] {
- matchingFiles, err := filepath.Glob(pattern)
- if err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error finding files with pattern %q: %w", pattern, err)
- }
-
- for _, file := range matchingFiles {
- // Write prefix to the hash ("r" or "s") followed by \0, then
- // the file path.
- _, err = hash.Write([]byte(prefix + "\x00" + file + "\x00"))
- if err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error writing %q path to hash: %w", file, err)
- }
-
- // Read and hash the content of the file.
- content, err := os.ReadFile(file)
- if err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error reading file %s: %w", file, err)
- }
- _, err = hash.Write(append(content, []byte("\x00")...))
- if err != nil {
- return "", fmt.Errorf("error writing %q content to hash: %w", file, err)
- }
- }
- }
- }
-
- return hex.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil)), nil
-}
diff --git a/config/reload_test.go b/config/reload_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index f0f44f358..000000000
--- a/config/reload_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,222 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2024 The Prometheus Authors
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package config
-
-import (
- "os"
- "path/filepath"
- "testing"
-
- "github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
-)
-
-func TestGenerateChecksum(t *testing.T) {
- tmpDir := t.TempDir()
-
- // Define paths for the temporary files.
- yamlFilePath := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "test.yml")
- ruleFilePath := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "rule_file.yml")
- scrapeConfigFilePath := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "scrape_config.yml")
-
- // Define initial and modified content for the files.
- originalRuleContent := "groups:\n- name: example\n rules:\n - alert: ExampleAlert"
- modifiedRuleContent := "groups:\n- name: example\n rules:\n - alert: ModifiedAlert"
-
- originalScrapeConfigContent := "scrape_configs:\n- job_name: example"
- modifiedScrapeConfigContent := "scrape_configs:\n- job_name: modified_example"
-
- // Define YAML content referencing the rule and scrape config files.
- yamlContent := `
-rule_files:
- - rule_file.yml
-scrape_config_files:
- - scrape_config.yml
-`
-
- // Write initial content to files.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(ruleFilePath, []byte(originalRuleContent), 0o644))
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scrapeConfigFilePath, []byte(originalScrapeConfigContent), 0o644))
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(yamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Generate the original checksum.
- originalChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
-
- t.Run("Rule File Change", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Modify the rule file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(ruleFilePath, []byte(modifiedRuleContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- modifiedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, modifiedChecksum)
-
- // Revert the rule file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(ruleFilePath, []byte(originalRuleContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Scrape Config Change", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Modify the scrape config file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scrapeConfigFilePath, []byte(modifiedScrapeConfigContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- modifiedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, modifiedChecksum)
-
- // Revert the scrape config file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scrapeConfigFilePath, []byte(originalScrapeConfigContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Rule File Deletion", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Delete the rule file.
- require.NoError(t, os.Remove(ruleFilePath))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- deletedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, deletedChecksum)
-
- // Restore the rule file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(ruleFilePath, []byte(originalRuleContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Scrape Config Deletion", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Delete the scrape config file.
- require.NoError(t, os.Remove(scrapeConfigFilePath))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- deletedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, deletedChecksum)
-
- // Restore the scrape config file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scrapeConfigFilePath, []byte(originalScrapeConfigContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Main File Change", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Modify the main YAML file.
- modifiedYamlContent := `
-global:
- scrape_interval: 3s
-rule_files:
- - rule_file.yml
-scrape_config_files:
- - scrape_config.yml
-`
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(modifiedYamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- modifiedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, modifiedChecksum)
-
- // Revert the main YAML file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(yamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Rule File Removed from YAML Config", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Modify the YAML content to remove the rule file.
- modifiedYamlContent := `
-scrape_config_files:
- - scrape_config.yml
-`
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(modifiedYamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- modifiedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, modifiedChecksum)
-
- // Revert the YAML content.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(yamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Scrape Config Removed from YAML Config", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Modify the YAML content to remove the scrape config file.
- modifiedYamlContent := `
-rule_files:
- - rule_file.yml
-`
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(modifiedYamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- modifiedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, modifiedChecksum)
-
- // Revert the YAML content.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(yamlFilePath, []byte(yamlContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Empty Rule File", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Write an empty rule file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(ruleFilePath, []byte(""), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- emptyChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, emptyChecksum)
-
- // Restore the rule file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(ruleFilePath, []byte(originalRuleContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-
- t.Run("Empty Scrape Config File", func(t *testing.T) {
- // Write an empty scrape config file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scrapeConfigFilePath, []byte(""), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should change.
- emptyChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.NotEqual(t, originalChecksum, emptyChecksum)
-
- // Restore the scrape config file.
- require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(scrapeConfigFilePath, []byte(originalScrapeConfigContent), 0o644))
-
- // Checksum should return to the original.
- revertedChecksum := calculateChecksum(t, yamlFilePath)
- require.Equal(t, originalChecksum, revertedChecksum)
- })
-}
-
-// calculateChecksum generates a checksum for the given YAML file path.
-func calculateChecksum(t *testing.T, yamlFilePath string) string {
- checksum, err := GenerateChecksum(yamlFilePath)
- require.NoError(t, err)
- require.NotEmpty(t, checksum)
- return checksum
-}
diff --git a/docs/command-line/prometheus.md b/docs/command-line/prometheus.md
index 8fefa8ecc..7d9e5a3c8 100644
--- a/docs/command-line/prometheus.md
+++ b/docs/command-line/prometheus.md
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ The Prometheus monitoring server
| -h
, --help
| Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man). | |
| --version
| Show application version. | |
| --config.file
| Prometheus configuration file path. | `prometheus.yml` |
-| --config.auto-reload-interval
| Specifies the interval for checking and automatically reloading the Prometheus configuration file upon detecting changes. | `30s` |
| --web.listen-address
... | Address to listen on for UI, API, and telemetry. Can be repeated. | `0.0.0.0:9090` |
| --auto-gomemlimit.ratio
| The ratio of reserved GOMEMLIMIT memory to the detected maximum container or system memory | `0.9` |
| --web.config.file
| [EXPERIMENTAL] Path to configuration file that can enable TLS or authentication. | |
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ The Prometheus monitoring server
| --query.max-concurrency
| Maximum number of queries executed concurrently. Use with server mode only. | `20` |
| --query.max-samples
| Maximum number of samples a single query can load into memory. Note that queries will fail if they try to load more samples than this into memory, so this also limits the number of samples a query can return. Use with server mode only. | `50000000` |
| --scrape.name-escaping-scheme
| Method for escaping legacy invalid names when sending to Prometheus that does not support UTF-8. Can be one of "values", "underscores", or "dots". | `values` |
-| --enable-feature
... | Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: agent, auto-gomaxprocs, auto-gomemlimit, auto-reload-config, concurrent-rule-eval, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, delayed-compaction, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, extra-scrape-metrics, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, native-histograms, new-service-discovery-manager, no-default-scrape-port, otlp-write-receiver, promql-experimental-functions, promql-delayed-name-removal, promql-per-step-stats, remote-write-receiver (DEPRECATED), utf8-names. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details. | |
+| --enable-feature
... | Comma separated feature names to enable. Valid options: agent, auto-gomaxprocs, auto-gomemlimit, concurrent-rule-eval, created-timestamp-zero-ingestion, delayed-compaction, exemplar-storage, expand-external-labels, extra-scrape-metrics, memory-snapshot-on-shutdown, native-histograms, new-service-discovery-manager, no-default-scrape-port, otlp-write-receiver, promql-experimental-functions, promql-delayed-name-removal, promql-per-step-stats, remote-write-receiver (DEPRECATED), utf8-names. See https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/feature_flags/ for more details. | |
| --log.level
| Only log messages with the given severity or above. One of: [debug, info, warn, error] | `info` |
| --log.format
| Output format of log messages. One of: [logfmt, json] | `logfmt` |
diff --git a/docs/feature_flags.md b/docs/feature_flags.md
index 51c2a9b31..7b07a04d0 100644
--- a/docs/feature_flags.md
+++ b/docs/feature_flags.md
@@ -265,16 +265,3 @@ This allows optionally preserving the `__name__` label via the `label_replace` a
When enabled, changes the metric and label name validation scheme inside Prometheus to allow the full UTF-8 character set.
By itself, this flag does not enable the request of UTF-8 names via content negotiation.
Users will also have to set `metric_name_validation_scheme` in scrape configs to enable the feature either on the global config or on a per-scrape config basis.
-
-## Auto Reload Config
-
-`--enable-feature=auto-reload-config`
-
-When enabled, Prometheus will automatically reload its configuration file at a
-specified interval. The interval is defined by the
-`--config.auto-reload-interval` flag, which defaults to `30s`.
-
-Configuration reloads are triggered by detecting changes in the checksum of the
-main configuration file or any referenced files, such as rule and scrape
-configurations. To ensure consistency and avoid issues during reloads, it's
-recommended to update these files atomically.