Since Prometheus only pulls metrics from endpoints it knows, we have to explicitly tell it where we'd like to collect data from. Under the /config path is a page that lists the current configured targets to pull. By default, there would be one job that runs against Prometheus itself, and this can be found in the conventional scraping path, /metrics. If we are connecting to the endpoint, we would see a very long text page, as shown in the following:
$ kubectl exec -n monitoring <prometheus_pod_name> -- \ wget -qO - localhost:9090/metrics# HELP go_gc_duration_seconds A summary of the GC invocation durations.# TYPE go_gc_duration_seconds summarygo_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="0"} 1.5657e-05go_gc_duration_seconds{quantile="0.25"} ...
