On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, but I'm afraid you cannot backfill historical data into > prometheus. Prometheus will only scrape the current/latest value. > Backfill is a feature being considered for the future > <https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/roadmap/#backfill-time-series>. > > For now, you will need to look at a different storage engine. I suggest > VictoriaMetrics, which is prometheus-compatible (i.e. it supports > prometheus API and promQL and can be configured as a remote-write endpoint > for prometheus) and it *does* support the back-filling that you want to > do. However it's not a remote-read endpoint, so for example prometheus' > alerting engine can't read data from it. If you're only ingesting daily > then this is unlikely to be a limitation. > An additional important detail is that VictoriaMetrics supports CSV data ingestion <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#how-to-import-csv-data> additionally to backfilling <https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/README.md#backfilling> . > > Also check out other storage integrations > <https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage> > which support both remote write and remote read, as you could populate the > backend directly but prometheus can still read from them. > > -- > 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/fc3f5c0b-c187-4698-9028-14144a7f38c4%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/fc3f5c0b-c187-4698-9028-14144a7f38c4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Best Regards, Aliaksandr -- 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/CAPbKnmCRPu7_VHe32Ou2BXGxD1C%2BzAGX1_J3kcfvjHeQ_PstiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
