You can use a gauge and create a recording rule that pushes the sum of the gauge over time I guess
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 02:48 Murali Krishna Kanagala < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAKimyZv_OwQqBK%3DPErSeD%2B25Y-mfSPZ_nGiQtKM_63D%3D1NdZ8g%40mail.gmail.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/CALnV8WiKg_vzz1p0vObDiZ159%2BRtK4Y%3DdvFargN5JBQuWmYFNg%40mail.gmail.com.
