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Expand Up @@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ This will make Django-Prometheus try to export /metrics on port
You can then configure Prometheus to collect metrics on as many
targets as you have workers, using each port separately.

This approach requires the application to be loaded into each child process.
uWSGI and Gunicorn typically load the application into the master process before forking the child processes.
Set the [lazy-apps option](https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Options.html#lazy-apps) to `true` (uWSGI)
or the [preload-app option](https://docs.gunicorn.org/en/stable/settings.html#preload-app) to `false` (Gunicorn)
to change this behaviour.


## Exporting /metrics in a WSGI application with multiple processes globally

In some WSGI applications, workers are short lived (less than a minute), so some
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