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# Prometheus 2.0 migration guide
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In line with our [stability promise](https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/07/18/prometheus-1-0-released/#fine-print),
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the Prometheus 2.0 release contains a number of backwards incompatible changes.
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This document offers guidance on migrating from Prometheus 1.8 to Prometheus 2.0.
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## Flags
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The format of the Prometheus command line flags have changed. Instead of a
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single dash, all flags now use a double dash. Common flags (`--config.file`,
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`--web.listen-address` and `--web.external-url`) are still the same but beyond
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that, almost all the storage-related flags have been removed.
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Some notable flags which have been removed:
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- `-alertmanager.url` In Prometheus 2.0, the command line flags for configuring
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a static Alertmanager URL have been removed. Alertmanager must now be
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discovered via service discovery, see [Alertmanager service discovery](#amsd).
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- `-log.format` In Prometheus 2.0 logs can only be streamed to standard error.
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- `-query.staleness-delta` has been renamed to `--query.lookback-delta`; Prometheus
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2.0 introduces a new mechanism for handling staleness, see [staleness](querying/basics.md#staleness).
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- `-storage.local.*` Prometheus 2.0 introduces a new storage engine, as such all
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flags relating to the old engine have been removed. For information on the
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new engine, see [Storage](#storage).
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- `-storage.remote.*` Prometheus 2.0 has removed the already deprecated remote
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storage flags, and will fail to start if they are supplied. To write to
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InfluxDB, Graphite, or OpenTSDB use the relevant storage adapter.
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## Alertmanager service discovery
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Alertmanager service discovery was introduced in Prometheus 1.4, allowing Prometheus
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to dynamically discover Alertmanager replicas using the same mechanism as scrape
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targets. In Prometheus 2.0, the command line flags for static Alertmanager config
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have been removed, so the following command line flag:
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```
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./prometheus -alertmanager.url=http://alertmanager:9093/
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```
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Would be replaced with the following in the `prometheus.yml` config file:
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```yml
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alerting:
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alertmanagers:
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- static_configs:
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- targets:
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- alertmanager:9093
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```
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You can also use all the usual Prothetheus service discovery integrations and
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relabeling in your Alertmanager configuration. This snippet instructs
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Prometheus to search for Kubernetes pods, in the `default` namespace, with the
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label `name: alertmanager` and with a non-empty port.
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```yml
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alerting:
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alertmanagers:
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- kubernetes_sd_configs:
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- role: pod
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tls_config:
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ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
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bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
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relabel_configs:
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- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_label_name]
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regex: alertmanager
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action: keep
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- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace]
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regex: default
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action: keep
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- source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_port_number]
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regex:
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action: drop
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```
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## Recording rules and alerts
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The format for configuring alerting and recording rules has been changed to YAML.
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An example of a recording rule and alert in the old format:
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```
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job:request_duration_seconds:histogram_quantile99 =
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histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(request_duration_seconds_bucket[1m])) by (le, job))
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ALERT FrontendRequestLatency
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IF job:request_duration_seconds:histogram_quantile99{job="frontend"} > 0.1
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FOR 5m
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ANNOTATIONS {
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summary = "High frontend request latency",
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}
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```
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Would look like this:
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```yml
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groups:
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- name: example.rules
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rules:
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- record: job:request_duration_seconds:99percentile
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expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(request_duration_seconds_bucket[1m]))
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BY (le, job))
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- alert: FrontendRequestLatency
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expr: job:request_duration_seconds:99percentile{job="frontend"} > 0.1
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for: 5m
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annotations:
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summary: High frontend request latency
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```
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To help with the change, the `promtool` tool has a mode to automate the rules conversion. Given a `.rules` file, it will output a `.rules.yml` file in the
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new format. For example:
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```
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$ promtool update rules example.rules
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```
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## Storage
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The data format in Prometheus 2.0 has completely changed and is not backwards
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compatible with 1.8. To retain access to your historic monitoring data we recommend
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you run a non-scraping Prometheus 1.8.1 instance in parallel with your Prometheus 2.0
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instance, and have the new server read existing data from the old one via the
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remote write protocol.
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Your Prometheus 1.8 instance should be started with the following flags and an
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empty config file (`empty.yml`):
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```
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$ ./prometheus-1.8.1.linux-amd64/prometheus -web.listen-address ":9094" -config.file empty.yml
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```
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NOTE: **NOTE** If you used external labels in your Prometheus 2.0 config, they need to be
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preserved in your Prometheus 1.8 config.
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Prometheus 2.0 can then be started (on the same machine) with the following flags:
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```
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$ ./prometheus-2.0.0.linux-amd64/prometheus --config.file prometheus.yml
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```
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Where `prometheus.yml` contains the stanza:
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```
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remote_read:
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- url: "http://localhost:9094/api/v1/read"
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```
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## PromQL
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The follow features have been removed from PromQL:
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- `drop_common_labels` function - the `without` aggregation modifier should be used
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instead.
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- `keep_common` aggregation modifier - the `by` modifier should be used instead.
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- `count_scalar` function - use cases are better handled by `absent()` or correct
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propagation of labels in operations.
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See [issue #3060](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3060) for more
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details.
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## Miscellaneous
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### Prometheus non-root user
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The Prometheus Docker image is now built to [run Prometheus
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as a non-root user](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/2859). If you
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want the Prometheus UI/API to listen on a low port number (say, port 80), you'll
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need to override it. For Kubernetes, you would use the following YAML:
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```yml
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apiVersion: v1
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kind: Pod
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metadata:
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name: security-context-demo-2
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spec:
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securityContext:
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runAsUser: 0
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...
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```
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See [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/security-context/](Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container)
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for more details.
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If you're using Docker, then the follow snippet would be used:
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```
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docker run -u root -p 80:80 prom/prometheus:v2.0.0-rc.2 --web.listen-address :80
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```
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## Prometheus lifecycle
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If you use the Prometheus `/-/reload` HTTP endpoint to [automatically reload your
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Prometheus config when it changes](configuration/configuration.md),
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these endpoints are disabled by default for security reasons in Prometheus 2.0.
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To enable them, set the `--web.enable-lifecycle` flag.
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