Disabling node_exporter but node_exporter_build_info continues to send

[Jwalker107]

Please forgive me if I'm missing something obvious. I'm fairly new to Helm charts and I'm trying to understand some interdependencies between charts here.

I'm using a Grafana Cloud instance and starting with the configuration created by the Kubernetes datasource integration there. I quickly overran the Metrics collection per user ( err-mimir-max-series-per-user ) and I am turning the knobs to understand each collection source.

Expectation:
With the following as part of the configuration file, I expect that all of the node-exporter features would be disabled and no node-exporter metrics would be sent:

metrics:
  enabled: true

  node-exporter:
    enabled: false

prometheus-node-exporter:
  enabled: false

Actual:
When I redeploy this chart, I see that many node-exporter metrics stop sending. For example container_cpu_usage_seconds_total metrics stop reporting as shown in Home -> Explore -> Metrics -> container_cpu_usage_seconds_total

However in the Kubernetes Dashboard's Configuration -> Metrics tab, the 'Node Exporter' metric continues to display a green checkbox, and checking again in the Explorer-> Metrics I can see that 'node_exporter_build_info' continues to report.

I'm trying to understand why node_exporter_build_info appears to be continue reporting, whether I have actually disabled node_exporter metrics or have failed to select a correct metric to check, and whether there is some other area I should be disabling.

I thank you for you consideration and for helping a newbie on this.

[petewall]

I think I found that an additional node_exporter_build_info is being sent by the chart's internal telemetry reporting. I'll fix that.

[Jwalker107]

Thanks very much! I found it to be a bit confusing.