Context Deadline Exceeded - prometheus

Question

I have Prometheus configuration with many jobs where I am scraping metrics over HTTP. But I have one job where I need to scrape the metrics over HTTPS.

When I access:

Answer 1

Probably the default scrape_timeout value is too short for you

[ scrape_timeout:  | default = 10s ]

Set a bigger value for scrape_timeout.

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'prometheus'

    scrape_interval: 5m
    scrape_timeout: 1m

Take a look here https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/1438