Post #1495857
2026-03-13 08:57 UTC
… to make bridging to the prometheus world easy, however it's still distinct, because we needed both something more low-level and extensible.
Note that the new systemd-report tool is not supposed to be the only way to get the data: because the API is generic, and accessible to any service I'd expect that current agents could start using this directly too if they like to extract metrics data from systemd components, without involvement of systemd-report.
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 08:59
Besides implementing the metrics interface in more of the services systemd ships, we also are planning a number of other improvements in upcoming versions. For example, I plan to augment the metrics interface with a "facts" interface, that is structured similarly, but instead of retrieving time-series style data it retrieves "static" data about the system, that is worth reporting, such as identity, public key material and so on.