# About the Prometheus server category

**URL:** <https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/about-the-prometheus-server-category/23>\
**Category:** Prometheus server\
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/about-the-prometheus-server-category/23 "2020-08-26T15:53:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/about-the-prometheus-server-category/23/2 "2021-07-29T16:45:54Z")

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I can see Prometheus list the pods using service discovery but it can’t scrape metrics from each pod, it says down. Do i have to install kube-state-metrics to get each pod metrics rather than using service discovery?

> [@Prometheus kuberentes-pods Get “https:// xx.xx.xx:443 /metrics”: dial tcp xx.xx.xx:443: connect: connection refused](https://discuss.prometheus.io/t/prometheus-kuberentes-pods-get-https-xx-xx-xx-443-metrics-dial-tcp-xx-xx-xx-connect-connection-refused/412):
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> I have configured Prometheus on one of the kubernetes cluster node using this [How To Install And Configure Prometheus Monitoring System On Linux](https://devopscube.com/install-configure-prometheus-linux/) after that I added following prometheus.yml file. I can list nodes and apiservers but for pods, all the pods shows down and error Get “https:// xx.xx.xx:443 /metrics”: dial tcp xx.xx.xx:443: connect: connection refused and for some pods the status is unknown. when i can list the nodes and api servers? why it shows connection refused? is it a bug or some…

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