JOBS AND INSTANCES

In Prometheus terms, an endpoint you can scrape is called an instance, usually corresponding to a single process. A collection of instances with the same purpose, a process replicated for scalability or reliability for example, is called a job

Automatically generated labels and time series

When Prometheus scrapes a target, it attaches some labels automatically to the scraped time series which serve to identify the scraped target:

• job: The configured job name that the target belongs to.
• instance: The <host>:<port> part of the target's URL that was scraped.