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mod_audit: Support for adding location (GeoIP) to audit events This can be more privacy-friendly than logging full IP addresses, and also more informative to a user - IP addresses don't mean much to the average person, however if they see activity from outside their expected country, they can immediately identify suspicious activity. As with IPs, this field is configurable for deployments that would like to disable it. Location is also not logged when the geoip library is not available.
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:11:53 +0100
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---
labels:
- Statistics
summary: Implementation of the Prometheus protocol
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Description
===========

This module implements the Prometheus reporting protocol, allowing you
to collect statistics directly from Prosody into Prometheus.

See the [Prometheus documentation][prometheusconf] on the format for
more information.

[prometheusconf]: https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/

**Note:** For use with Prosody trunk (0.12) we recommend the bundled
[mod_http_openmetrics](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_http_openmetrics)
instead. This module (mod_prometheus) will continue to be available in the
community repository for use with older Prosody versions.

Configuration
=============

mod\_prometheus itself doesn’t have any configuration option, but it
requires Prosody’s [internal statistics
provider](https://prosody.im/doc/statistics#built-in_providers) to be
enabled.  You may also want to change the default collection interval
to the one your statistics consumer is using. See below for more information.

```lua
statistics = "internal"
statistics_interval = 15 -- in seconds
```

::: {.alert .alert-warning}
**NOTE:** Make sure to put the statistics variables in the global section of
the configuration, **not** in a `VirtualHost` or `Component` section.  You can
use `prosodyctl check` if you are unsure and want to check your configuration.
:::

See also the documentation of Prosody’s [HTTP
server](https://prosody.im/doc/http), since Prometheus is an HTTP
protocol that is how you can customise its URL.  The default one being
http://localhost:5280/metrics

Scrape interval vs statistics_interval
--------------------------------------

The `statistics_interval` should be set to `"manual"` on trunk if and only
if you have a single Prometheus instance scraping Prosody. This will allow
the internal statistics gathering to run optimally.

If you have multiple instances scraping Prosody, set `statistics_interval`
to the scrape interval of Prometheus to avoid errors in rate calculations
and similar.

Future work will allow the use of `"manual"` with multiple Prometheus
instances and varying scrape intervals (stay tuned).

Compatibility
=============

  ------- -------------
  trunk   Works (but replaced by [mod_http_openmetrics](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_http_openmetrics))
  0.11    Works
  0.10    Works
  0.9     Does not work
  ------- -------------