Joshua Powers

@dmytronasyrov I have a draft PR https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/11642 up now. It adds a new setting, `metrics_provider` that when set to `Prometheus` will connect to the exposed Prometheus endpoint on port 7000...

When I first started looking at this, I was looking at the metrics from `mntr` with the Prometheus provider. However, that is not the right place to look for metrics...

The change occurred in https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/10491 @101100 Thoughts on removing vs keeping the check for the cache field? It does look like upstream does not have this same check.

next steps: add the additional metrics requested, clearly explain the existing fields measure data read/written from block devices and new fields of `process_read_bytes` and `process_write_bytes` (happy to hear different/better names)...

Hi, Thanks for the PR. This sounds like a good idea for your use-case. Would you be interested in opening a PR with the config option to allow for the...

Hi, Thanks for taking a look and thank you very much for taking the time to start a PR! At the bottom of the sample config, you will see that...

next steps: look to add the requested fields

next steps: get PR updated without unnecessary binary or test file, review PR

Hi, Sorry, no one has gotten back to you. Thanks for taking the time to file an upstream bug as well! It looks like we could make this change and...

Hi, Thanks for the feature request. Do you have an example response we could take a look at from a server? Is this something you might be willing to contribute?...