# VMNodeScrape The `VMNodeScrape` CRD provides discovery mechanism for scraping metrics kubernetes nodes, it is useful for node exporters monitoring. `VMNodeScrape` object generates part of [VMAgent](./vmagent.md) configuration. It has various options for scraping configuration of target (with basic auth,tls access, by specific port name etc.). By specifying configuration at CRD, operator generates config for [VMAgent](./vmagent.md) and syncs it. It's useful for cadvisor scraping, node-exporter or other node-based exporters. `VMAgent` `nodeScrapeSelector` must match `VMNodeScrape` labels. More information about selectors you can find in [this doc](./vmagent.md#scraping). ## Specification You can see the full actual specification of the `VMNodeScrape` resource in the **[API docs -> VMNodeScrape](../api.md#vmnodescrape)**. Also, you can check out the [examples](#examples) section. ## Examples ### Cadvisor scraping ```yaml apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1 kind: VMNodeScrape metadata: name: cadvisor-metrics spec: scheme: "https" tlsConfig: insecureSkipVerify: true caFile: "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt" bearerTokenFile: "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token" relabelConfigs: - action: labelmap regex: __meta_kubernetes_node_label_(.+) - targetLabel: __address__ replacement: kubernetes.default.svc:443 - sourceLabels: [__meta_kubernetes_node_name] regex: (.+) targetLabel: __metrics_path__ replacement: /api/v1/nodes/$1/proxy/metrics/cadvisor ```