Disabling collectors

Disabling collectors

TLDR: Disable specific collectors

Sometimes there is no need some metrics, and you would like to disable exposing them.

1. Disabling collectors is possible by specifying their names in disable_collectors list. For example, the following example disables two collectors:

disable_collectors:
  - postgres/storage
  - system/filesystems

2. After editing configuration, restart the service.

systemctl restart pgscv

The full list of available collectors and their names could be found here.