Sorry, I misspoke. Only non-machine-specific collectors run on the Prometheus machine. > rather than reinventing cron. But Prometheus already has a job interv

Sorry, I misspoke. Only non-machine-specific collectors run on the Prometheus machine. > rather than reinventing cron. But Prometheus already has a job interval setting. With text files emitted with cron jobs, you get the silly effect where metrics are produced at intervals which don't correspond with the job interval.