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+# clickhouse-exporter
+
+A fork of https://github.com/Altinity/clickhouse-operator/tree/master/cmd/metrics_exporter
+
+```
+usage: clickhouse-exporter [<flags>]
+
+Flags:
+  -h, --help                   Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
+      --chi-name="localhost"
+                               Clickhouse cluster name.
+      --namespace="default"    The namespace label for metrics.
+      --metrics-endpoint=":8888"
+                               The Prometheus exporter endpoint.
+      --chi-list-endpoint=":8888"
+                               The CHI list endpoint.
+      --scheme=http            Clickhouse HTTP scheme.
+      --username="default"     Clickhouse username.
+      --password=""            Clickhouse user password.
+      --port=8123              Clickhouse HTTP port number.
+      --address=127.0.0.1 ...  A list of Clickhouse hosts
+      --log-level=info         Only log messages with the given severity or above. Valid levels: [debug, info, warn,
+                               error, fatal]
+      --log-format=json        Set the log format. Valid formats: [json, text]
+      --version                Show application version.
+```