On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 20:11, Albert Serrallé <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm trying to figure out how to federate my cloudwatch_exporter metrics. > > The default metrics are 10m old, I understand that this is needed because > cloudwatch consolidate metrics over time. My prometheus is scraping the > exporter and saving the values with the original timestamp. Federation > queries (as they are instant queries) cannot retrieve those metrics. > > So, I think that my only options are: > > - set_timestamp -> false (fake illusion of real time metric, which are > really 10m old) > - delay_seconds -> 1s-5m (metric might not be consolidated in > cloudwatch) > > There's anything else I can try? I don't like any of those two methods for > the exposed reasons. I've been looking at the changes in stale logic for > 2.0, but I don't know if this applies to me or how to do it: > > If you're federating instance-level metrics, switch to only aggregated >> metrics >> > > So, what's the recommended way to overcome this? > You can't with federation, it's merely a more obvious case where instance-level metrics don't work. See https://www.robustperception.io/federation-what-is-it-good-for In this case if you need the metrics in a different Prometheus, get that Prometheus to scrape the cloudwatch exporter. Brian > > Many thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Users" 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-users/030245a2-9e9e-4493-9a39-eebf53753e47%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/030245a2-9e9e-4493-9a39-eebf53753e47%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Brian Brazil www.robustperception.io -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" 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-users/CAHJKeLo%3DiP0hhL9mQh%3DZsUwW_PAtH%3D-EiZvv5Ogsnx8UR66xDA%40mail.gmail.com.
