Failed to update metrics (player)

[mr190e]

since the last update (I pulled it more or less accidently via docker because I changed some settings), I get these errors:

2025-02-01T22:27:05Z ERR Failed to send 'players' command error="connection to server is down, need reconnect"

2025-02-01T22:27:05Z ERR Error updating metrics error="connection to server is down, need reconnect" context=player

2025-02-01T22:27:05Z FTL Failed to update metrics (player)

It almost looks to me like either RCON is down, but this would be really weird as it just worked until before the update. I think I came from version 0.1.1

Has there been a change in the config maybe?

[WoozyMasta]

Probably just the logs became more detailed

If you had problems with the configuration, the exporter would not start at all, since the first thing it does is check the connection and try to initialize the metrics. You would simply get the error "Failed to establish connections to RCON" when starting.

According to the description, it looks more like your server is being restarted according to a schedule. And while the DayZ server is off, an attempt is made to collect metrics.

And if this is so, then this is normal behavior, because the server is currently off, you can just forget about it, and let the exporter also restart with the server shutdown. Or if you want a correct termination, then stop and start the exporter yourself along with the server restart.