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Using the SNMP exporter is not easy. It is necessary to understand quite a few concepts to be able to deploy it in a meaningful way. Among them SNMP, Prometheus, relabeling, the proxy exporter pattern, the SNMP exporter and its snmp.yml generator.

Hence an explanation to give people the necessary overview would be good. The purpose is neither a complete step-by-step guide nor a complete reference. It should enable people who have not heard of SNMP before to deploy and configure the exporter and Prometheus to do something useful with and to research meaningful SNMP OID and walks themselves.

Because the proxy exporter pattern is recurring, it will be handled in a separate issue #1193 and explanation. The SNMP exporter explanation will just link to that .

As proposed on the users mailing list and announced on the devs mailing list I want to write those explanations, but help is very welcome.

That sounds like it'd fit into our guide section.

This is very worthwhile. It re-opens the topic of pulling in exporter help files into prometheus.io at build time from June this year.

I don't think we ever went anywhere, there.