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Minor improvements to glossary (prometheus#1452)
* Minor improvements to glossary Signed-off-by: Antonio Vivace <avivace4@gmail.com> * Split the exporter description in two sentences Signed-off-by: Antonio Vivace <avivace4@gmail.com>
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### Direct instrumentation
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Direct instrumentation is instrumentation added inline as part of the source code
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Direct instrumentation is instrumentation added inline as part of the source code of a program, using a [client library](#client-library).
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### Endpoint
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A source of metrics that can be scraped, usually corresponding to a single process.
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### Exporter
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An exporter is a binary that exposes Prometheus metrics, commonly by converting
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metrics that are exposed in a non-Prometheus format into a format Prometheus supports.
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An exporter is a binary running alongside the application you
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want to obtain metrics from. The exporter exposes Prometheus metrics, commonly by converting metrics that are exposed in a non-Prometheus format into a format that Prometheus supports.
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### Instance
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