Timeout configuration for pushing metrics to Grafana Cloud

[hharsha9090]

I'm looking for options to specify the connection-timeout, backoff-time, no-of-retries for pushing metrics to Grafana cloud. Are there any such options?
In my current setup, there may be some issues connecting to the internet through a proxy when such issue occurs the proxies network bandwidth is heavily occupied because of the number of requests initiated from the synthetic-monitoring-agent. I would rather want to acknowledge the failure and look at it manually than causing issues on the proxy using considerable bandwidth.

[peterschretlen]

@hharsha9090 thanks for logging the issue, we don't have anything like that at the moment.

The current flags are here:

synthetic-monitoring-agent/cmd/synthetic-monitoring-agent/main.go

Lines 49 to 64 in abb5ff6

	features = feature.NewCollection()
	devMode = flags.Bool("dev", false, "turn on all development flags")
	debug = flags.Bool("debug", false, "debug output (enables verbose)")
	verbose = flags.Bool("verbose", false, "verbose logging")
	reportVersion = flags.Bool("version", false, "report version and exit")
	grpcApiServerAddr = flags.String("api-server-address", "localhost:4031", "GRPC API server address")
	grpcInsecure = flags.Bool("api-insecure", false, "Don't use TLS with connections to GRPC API")
	apiToken = flags.String("api-token", "", "synthetic monitoring probe authentication token")
	enableChangeLogLevel = flags.Bool("enable-change-log-level", false, "enable changing the log level at runtime")
	enableDisconnect = flags.Bool("enable-disconnect", false, "enable HTTP /disconnect endpoint")
	enablePProf = flags.Bool("enable-pprof", false, "exposes profiling data via HTTP /debug/pprof/ endpoint")
	httpListenAddr = flags.String("listen-address", "localhost:4050", "listen address")
	k6URI = flags.String("k6-uri", "k6", "how to run k6 (path or URL)")
	k6BlacklistedIP = flags.String("blocked-nets", "10.0.0.0/8", "IP networks to block in CIDR notation, disabled if empty")
	selectedPublisher = flags.String("publisher", pusherV1.Name, "publisher type (EXPERIMENTAL)")
	telemetryTimeSpan = flags.Int("telemetry-time-span", defTelemetryTimeSpan, "time span between telemetry push executions per tenant")

The pusher options aren't exposed/configurable, but you can see the default values here:

synthetic-monitoring-agent/internal/pusher/v2/options.go

Line 20 in a6473e7

defaultPusherOptions = pusherOptions{