Permission Denied when trying to scrape my own metrics

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Hello all,

I am trying to do a proof of concept within my team. I have Prometheus setup as a standalone service in a VM. I am able to got to localhost:9090 and move freely through the UI - graph, status, alerts, etc. I am also able to curl the metrics page and get a list of metrics. The issue I’m having is I get a permission denied error when trying to scrape metrics from my targets (localhost:9090/targets), including the same Prometheus instance.

The specific error message I get is “Get “http://localhost:9090/metrics”: dial tcp [::1]:9090: connect: permission denied”.

Does anyone know where this error message originates from?

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Could you try with the 127.0.0.1 IP address? It might be an IPv6 issue on your side.

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Hello roidelapluie,

Yes. I’ve tried 127.0.0.1 and the actual IP of the VM. Both give me the same error message.

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I will add that I don’t have this issue when I run my command in the terminal. I only get these errors when I run it as a service.