Multi target and 5xx

[linuxmanju]

What did you do?

Configured latest stable release of postgres_exporter, Created an auth module.

auth_modules:
  foo1: # Set this to any name you want
    type: userpass
    userpass:
      username: 'USN'
      password: 'pass@123'
    options:
      # options become key=value parameters of the DSN
      sslmode: disable

Promtheus scrape job

 - job_name: 'postgres-gcp-sd'
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - 10.180.56.18:5432
          #gce_sd_configs:
          # - project: josh-prod-392409
          # zone: asia-south1-b
          # port: 5432
    metrics_path: /probe
    params:
        auth_module: [foo1]
    relabel_configs:
      - source_labels: [__address__]
        target_label: __param_target
      - source_labels: [__param_target]
        target_label: instance
      - target_label: __address__
        replacement: 10.180.191.203:6262

What did you expect to see?

Scrape to happen successfully with metrics being available in prometheus.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

server returned HTTP status 500 Internal Server Error

Environment

prod

• System information:

Linux 5.10.0-23-cloud-amd64 x86_64

• postgres_exporter version:

  postgres_exporter, version 0.13.2 (branch: HEAD, revision: 8c3604b85e38ae7141e84ecdc318b6015a196c97) build user: root@2ea2be721819 build date: 20230724-00:08:19 go version: go1.20.6 platform: linux/amd64 tags: netgo static_build

• postgres_exporter flags:

 postgres_exporter  --config.file=/tmp/pg.conf  --log.level=debug --web.listen-address=:6262

• PostgreSQL version:

14.0

• Logs:

postgres_exporter  --config.file=/tmp/pg.conf  --log.level=debug --web.listen-address=:6262
ts=2023-09-18T08:12:21.675Z caller=proc.go:250 msg="Excluded databases" databases=[]
ts=2023-09-18T08:12:21.675Z caller=main.go:142 level=warn msg="Failed to create PostgresCollector" err="empty dsn"
ts=2023-09-18T08:12:21.676Z caller=tls_config.go:274 level=info msg="Listening on" address=[::]:6262
ts=2023-09-18T08:12:21.676Z caller=tls_config.go:277 level=info msg="TLS is disabled." http2=false address=[::]:6262

[sysadmind]

The only scenario that should throw a 500 on the /probe endpoint is if we fail to create the collector. In that case, the error should be in the response body. Can you query the probe URL and see what the output is?

I opened #918 to also log this error.