-#TODO prometheus sdk DB is started outside of emulator, place these globals in an external SDK config file?
-prometheus_ip = '127.0.0.1'
+#TODO if prometheus sdk DB is started outside of emulator, place these globals in an external SDK config file?
+prometheus_ip = 'localhost'
+# when sdk is started with docker-compose, we could use
+# prometheus_ip = 'prometheus'