how to take data from http source in /esin/dump1090-exporter ?

[ghost]

Good day Andrey Esin,

How can i point another source location for aircraft.json file ? Could you please tell me , name of Envelopment variable i need to set for get data from http link ( not from local json file ) like http://IP:8080/data/aircraft.json

As i see you have only one application key to set local http port for Prometheus connection

Thanks for your support.

[esin]

Hey!
Well, there are no any environment variables for that (sorry)
For this functionality, need to write some code (https://github.com/esin/dump1090-exporter/blob/master/dump1090-exporter.go#L95 here are openning file, so before it, should be downloading json from remote host)
If you really need, you can code byself and create PR to repo :) or create issue in https://github.com/esin/dump1090-exporter - I'll try to push some code for this
And after sometime, I think is better solution for this case (and with dump1090-exporter) - using curl + jq + pushgateway. May be, it will be great, that dump1090-exporter is good in parsing aircraft.json and can only parse local file (unix-way), so another process (curl in loop) will download aircraft.json from remote host and put in some place

[ghost]

for all aircraft's not only this ( i get json / metric information from live because of you see a different data in my examples )

[esin]

Well, yep
You are right. Your dump1090 saves altitude to "altitude" field, and exporter doesn't expect this
Can you check on flightradar24, is your altitude in meters or miles?

[ghost]

in FA24 altitude in Meters
in Dump1090 json in Miles

[esin]

If you are using docker - try to pull new latest

[ghost]

Now everything is OK.
Thanks for fix