What is PDCE ?
If you are here, it's safe bet that you ever know what is Prometheus : Prometheus needs exporters to collect data. An Exporter give a instant view of metrics. Prometheus collect them regularly, record them, and propose a time series API over it.
for,example, Prometheus comes with the famous Node Exporter bundled with it. Node Exporter allows Prometheus to get the basic metrics of a computer (memory, CPU, network traffics, etc...)