level=ERROR messages in postgres_exporter.service status

[4PRawal]

What did you do? Checked postgres_exporter service status via command - systemctl status postgres_exporter.service

What did you expect to see? Output with no level=ERROR messages

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances? Multiple level=ERROR messages with the below message were found

msg="Error loading config" err="Error opening config file "postgres_exporter.yml": open postgres_exporter.yml: no such file or directory"

• System information:

Linux 5.14.0-427.42.1.el9_4.x86_64 x86_64

• postgres_exporter version:

postgres_exporter, version 0.16.0

• postgres_exporter flags:

/postgres_exporter --collector.stat_activity_autovacuum --collector.statio_user_indexes --auto-discover-databases

• PostgreSQL version:

  PostgreSQL 14.7

• Logs: msg="Error loading config" err="Error opening config file "postgres_exporter.yml": open postgres_exporter.yml: no such file or directory"

Please help us with the reason of the error and way to solve it.

[ibai-mutiloa]

Did you have any postgres_exporter.yml file? cause it looks like the service is searching for one but cant find it. I have one created with this info Uploading ayuda.txt…