The Pushgateway (1.2.0) accepts "# TYPE metric-name metric-type" lines even when the metric-name does not occur in the push data.
Is this a quirk in the Pushgateway implementation or is it an intentional feature? The exposition spec covers the case of a metric-name without an explicit metric-type. The spec does not mention the case of an explicit metric-type without a metric-name. I am an employee of Oracle USA. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/3f6ba686-11af-48e7-8476-8abc0e801dbf%40googlegroups.com.

