Query a metric from Prometheus and use current hostname as variable

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Hello,

we are monitoring our systems and use Prometheus data beside the Check_MK Agent. The metric we want to retrieve has a label called “server” with the value of the current hostname. Since I do not want to create individual roles for every host where I have to write a query like my_prom_query{server=“myhostname”}, I would like to have a more generic query where I could use the current hostname as a variable like

my_prom_query{server=“$current_hostname”}

but I think that this is not possible. Or do I miss something?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks and best regards

Jens

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Not sure about Prometheus, but in other rules Nagios Macros could be used:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/nagioscore/3/en/macrolist.html?mwg_rnd=4396589

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Hello Mike!

Thanks for your reply, but it seems not to work. I get this error message:

PromQL expression (x509_cert_expiry{job="myjob",env="myenv",host="$HOSTNAME$"}/86400) does not produce a valid result

Any other ideas?

Kind regards

Jens