https://support.tools/tags/servicemonitor/Recent content in Servicemonitor on Support ToolsHugoen-USSat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500https://support.tools/prometheus-monitor-external-services/Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500https://support.tools/prometheus-monitor-external-services/<p>Monitoring external systems—like bare-metal servers, APIs, or other cloud services—from within Kubernetes can help unify your observability pipeline. With <strong>Prometheus Operator</strong>, you don’t need to deploy a second Prometheus instance. Instead, you can expose external targets using Kubernetes-native manifests: <code>Service</code>, <code>Endpoints</code>, and <code>ServiceMonitor</code>.</p> <p>In this guide, we’ll walk through:</p> <ul> <li>Monitoring a <strong>VM with Node Exporter</strong></li> <li>Monitoring a <strong>remote NGINX server</strong></li> <li>Scraping a <strong>custom REST API</strong></li> <li>Tips on <strong>TLS and firewalling</strong> external exporters</li> </ul>