Glossary term
What is scrape (Scraping)?
scrape stands for Scraping.
When Prometheus fetches the /metrics page of a service over HTTP on a schedule.
Learn it properly · Observability & SRELesson 2: Metrics and Prometheus: Counters, Gauges, Histograms and PercentilesThe metric types, labels and cardinality, why averages lie, percentiles, and a real Prometheus scrape of a Node service.