Hi - I instrumented an histogram with golang prom sdk and it includes exemplar. When i curl the metrics endpoint, i see below for my histogram with exemplar. As you can see, each bucket can have exemplar, and exemplar has time and they (exemplar) can be old. When Prometheus with exemplar enabled is scraping this end-point, does it de-dup the exemplars so it doesn't ingest the older exemplars for some buckets, again, for every scrape ?
Thanks for reading and your help. # HELP exemplar_my_histogram vishwa's test metric3 histogram # TYPE exemplar_my_histogram histogram exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-3.0"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.9"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.8"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.6999999999999997"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.5999999999999996"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.4999999999999996"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.3999999999999995"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.2999999999999994"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.1999999999999993"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-2.099999999999999"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.9999999999999991"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.899999999999999"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.799999999999999"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.6999999999999988"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.5999999999999988"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.4999999999999987"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.3999999999999986"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.2999999999999985"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.1999999999999984"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-1.0999999999999983"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.9999999999999983"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.8999999999999984"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.7999999999999984"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.6999999999999984"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.5999999999999984"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.49999999999999845"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.39999999999999847"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.2999999999999985"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.19999999999999848"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="-0.09999999999999848"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.5265566588595902e-15"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.10000000000000153"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.20000000000000154"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.30000000000000154"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.4000000000000016"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.5000000000000016"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.6000000000000015"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.7000000000000015"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.8000000000000015"} 0 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="0.9000000000000015"} 1 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 0.81342384094935 1.6916505472120025e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.0000000000000016"} 1 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.1000000000000016"} 1 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.2000000000000017"} 2 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 1.1297683801942673 1.6915601023219924e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.3000000000000018"} 4 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 1.2198116269608419 1.6920360561040416e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.400000000000002"} 5 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 1.358550014547222 1.6919264337043686e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.500000000000002"} 5 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.600000000000002"} 6 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 1.5173031242650117 1.691906796059689e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.7000000000000022"} 6 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.8000000000000023"} 7 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 1.7294844647831784 1.6919916590401986e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="1.9000000000000024"} 7 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.000000000000002"} 9 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 1.952000333558452 1.692091738121497e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.1000000000000023"} 10 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 2.096613085256622 1.6918952017111053e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.2000000000000024"} 13 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 2.1298900181088167 1.6919736919950492e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.3000000000000025"} 14 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 2.2400071381918214 1.691540474782527e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.4000000000000026"} 15 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 2.390128024808927 1.6917299980148625e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.5000000000000027"} 16 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 2.4096549758317476 1.692204001547885e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.6000000000000028"} 18 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 2.5060113851880983 1.6920551035233934e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.700000000000003"} 18 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.800000000000003"} 18 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="2.900000000000003"} 18 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="3.000000000000003"} 18 exemplar_my_histogram_bucket{dim1="e",dim2="f",le="+Inf"} 69970 # {mytraceid="fa128244a04e3167"} 644.3222078518065 1.6922187573901772e+09 exemplar_my_histogram_sum{dim1="e",dim2="f"} 3.5056405397655797e+08 exemplar_my_histogram_count{dim1="e",dim2="f"} 69970 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. 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