On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 09:33, Julien Pivotto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We had another request for a promql function, last_over_time.
>
> https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/7179
> https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/6530
> https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/1139
>
> I would like to see more broadly comments about this - it seems that
> there are usescases for this (I needed this - I was lucky to be able to
> do it with recording rules - but you can not really do it with
> subqueries).
>

Thus far we've had no valid concrete use cases. The requests thus far
appear to have been a mix of misunderstanding of PromQL semantics, and
attempting to use Prometheus as an event logging system.

What's your use case?

Brian


>
> I know that we are careful when adding new promql functions, but this
> seems to be a valid one.
>
> Maybe we can revisit the conclusion here and add this promql function?
>
>
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