diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e0904f8..731c8b7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,16 +5,15 @@ Metric exporter for bird routing daemon to use with Prometheus ## Remarks -this is an early version - Since bird_exporter calls the bird client binary, bird has to be installed on the same mashine as bird_exporter. +### Bird configuration To get meaningful uptime information bird has to be configured this way: ``` timeformat protocol "%s"; ``` - +### Defualt Port In version 0.7.1 bird_exporter the default port changed to 9324 since port 9200 is the default port of elasticsearch. The new port is now registered in the default port allocation list (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/wiki/Default-port-allocations) ## Install