How to create a ServiceMonitor for prometheus-operator?

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Thanks to Peter who showed me that it idea in principle wasn’t entirely incorrect I’ve found the missing link. As a servicemonitor does monitor services (haha), I missed the part of creating a service which isn’t part of the gitlab helm chart. Finally this yaml did the trick for me and the metrics appear in Prometheus:

# Service targeting gitlab instances
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: gitlab-metrics
  labels:
    app: gitlab-runner-gitlab-runner
spec:
  ports:
  - name: metrics # expose metrics port
    port: 9252 # defined in gitlab chart
    targetPort: metrics
    protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: gitlab-runner-gitlab-runner # target gitlab pods
---
apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: ServiceMonitor
metadata:
  name: gitlab-metrics-servicemonitor
  # Change this to the namespace the Prometheus instance is running in
  # namespace: default
  labels:
    app: gitlab-runner-gitlab-runner
    release: prometheus
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: gitlab-runner-gitlab-runner # target gitlab service
  endpoints:
  - port: metrics
    interval: 15s

Nice to know: the metrics targetPort is defined in the gitlab runner chart.

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