No metrics for podman generated unit files.

[Skipper0707]

Hello;

This exporter is amazing and satisfies all my monitoring needs, the only problem is that I have several unit files related to podman which reside in /home/user/.config/systemd/user and I want to be able to monitor them too, however, using the following syntax didn't work. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

./systemd_exporter --systemd.collector.unit-include="/home/user/.config/systemd/user/.*"
./systemd_exporter --systemd.collector.unit-include="/home/user/.config/systemd/user/*"
./systemd_exporter --systemd.collector.unit-include=/home/user/.config/systemd/user/.*\.service

The service files generated by podman do not show up in the metrics by default. I even have the podman.service so I gather the problem with those is that they're on a rather different path than the default.

UPDATE: I noticed when I run the systemd_exporter without the mentioned flag, everything works and I start to see metrics in Prometheus but when I use the flag, it not only doesn't include the set path but, it doesn't send any systems metrics at all.

UPDATE2: I tried the following:

systemctl link /home/user/.config/systemd/user/foo.serivce

And a symlink was made in /etc/systemd/system/ but after running the systemd_exporter the foo.service still didn't show up.

I have to mention these service files are generated using podman generate systemd via the rootless user and can be managed using systemctl --user status/restart/stop... foo.service, hope this information helps in helping me :)

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.