Comment by momothereal

> AFAIK, it isn't even designed to consume metrics other than from apps linked to its client library.

Could you elaborate? I use Prometheus to scrape from an HTTP endpoint in various Pods in Kubernetes, so the service discovery is pretty useful to me.

I could see the Kubernetes & the other SDs split out of the core binary if default size is really an issue. Or are you talking about something else?