Availability of the file to be checked.

[noKerc]

Hello , encountered the following problem, there are 3 files test.txt here is my filestat.yaml

exporter:
  listen_address: ':9943'
  metrics_path: /metrics

  working_directory: "/app"
  # Default enable/disable of metrics - overridden if not set by parameter '-metric.*'
  enable_crc32_metric: true
  # enable_nb_line_metric: false
  # list of patterns to apply - metrics can be enable/disabled for each group
  files:
    - patterns: ["test1.txt","test2.txt","test23.txt"]
      enable_nb_line_metric: true
      enable_crc32_metric: true

The received metrics look like this and when changing the content of files hash change, but when deleting a file, for example test1.txt metrics do not change in any way. Also if you recreate the file test1.txt. the metrics will not change in any way.

HELP file_content_hash_crc32 CRC32 hash of file content using the IEEE polynomial TYPE file_content_hash_crc32 gauge file_content_hash_crc32{path="test1.txt"} 3.85946783e+09 file_content_hash_crc32{path="test2.txt"} 2.657284769e+09 file_content_hash_crc32{path="test23.txt"} 7.73236185e+08

I would be grateful to find a solution.

[michael-doubez]

Hello.

Do you mean that the metric continues to exists even though the file is no longer on the disk ?

[michael-doubez]

Closing the question.

Note that if you are looking at prometheus metrics, stale metrics are kept for 5 minutes or so.