Hi there, we use the slurm prometheus exporter to collect slurm metrics. This works pretty well. However, we have noticed that metrics for some of the restricted partitions are not collected. It occurred to me that this is because we are using an unprivileged user to run the exporter.

I am trying to figure out the best way to allow an unprivileged user to collect all metrics. I could add the user to all the relevant groups. However, I am also thinking of using the new slurm exporter that uses the API in which case I need to somehow handle a token.

It would be nice to have a readonly user, ie a user that cannot submit any jobs but only read the current state of the cluster. I guess setting MaxJobs and MaxSubmitJobs to 0 would do this.

Any other suggestions?

Regards magnus