Hi Sean, Prometheus does not keep track of the counters. Metric source or the exporter does it.
As the metric goes from 0 to N on every run of the cronjob you can create a synthetic metric in Prometheus that tracks the increase. If the labels are persistent you can track the increase and probably can aggregate them. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 6:31 PM Sean LeBlanc <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to have a counter index even > between application runs. My use case would be jobs scheduled via > Kubernetes CronJob, and having counters used for when certain methods are > called. The app would typically run in a few seconds and be done. So I set > up pushgateway, and try running the app - I see the counter show up in the > pushgateway, but it starts over again on the next run of the application. > > Is there some common practice that is done here that I should be following > if I want a counter's value to persist between application runs? > > -- > 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/927f938d-aa3a-4670-9a10-17371e911448%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/927f938d-aa3a-4670-9a10-17371e911448%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAKimyZv_OwQqBK%3DPErSeD%2B25Y-mfSPZ_nGiQtKM_63D%3D1NdZ8g%40mail.gmail.com.
