On 28 Apr 09:51, Brian Brazil wrote:
> 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

One of our partners have a flaky API ; we don't always get the data we
need, and have gaps of up to 1 hour every now and then.

This is gauges (number of credits we still have) so only the last value
we could scrape matters.

Since it is a third party there isn't much we can do about it. We did
not want to hack the exporter neither. We currently have a recording rule
but that has drawbacks, e.g. upon prometheus restart.

> 
> 
> >
> > 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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