Ah, I see you are right. It seems the blackbox exporter, and either summary or histograms (with statsd exporter) are then my best bets. Thanks for the info.
Op wo 3 jun. 2020 om 21:35 schreef Ben Kochie <[email protected]>: > This is not a use case for Prometheus. Prometheus is a metrics system, not > an event system. > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 20:46 b0nes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I've looked into it... I want to store the values though, and the >> histogram just keeps a count of how many are faster than a certain >> threshold. >> It also calculates a quantile over the amount of values in these buckets, >> which is just an approximation and not an actual quantile based on the >> values. >> In short, it doesn't seem that's what I need, as I also cannot figure out >> an accurate minimum and a maximum value. >> >> >> Op woensdag 3 juni 2020 20:10:59 UTC+2 schreef Ben Kochie: >>> >>> You're probably looking for the histogram data type. It allows you to >>> calculate quantiles over time without having to collect every sample. >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020, 20:01 b0nes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I was wondering if the following is possible: >>>> >>>> - Have a Python or Bash script check duration of a certain API call >>>> 5-10 times per second >>>> - Scrape these stats once per second >>>> - Calculate min, avg, 0.5, 0.9, 0.99 quantiles, max and graph them >>>> in Grafana. >>>> >>>> I spent many hours today trying to figure this out, and along the way I >>>> used the pushgateway and statsd exporter. >>>> Pushgateway seems to override the last value until it gets scraped, >>>> which isn't what I want - I want all values, not just the latest one. >>>> statsd has a summary option, but doesn't provide a min and max value. >>>> >>>> Anyone know how to do what I want? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/2366deaa-7db7-4ee6-a73e-bb4d30c5d6ff%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/2366deaa-7db7-4ee6-a73e-bb4d30c5d6ff%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/a4b4bc75-09f9-4302-b435-cf988f092885%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/a4b4bc75-09f9-4302-b435-cf988f092885%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/CAF9Wby7nMHtTo6PVFB2eBES94pgggUVoo8GLnGLFXHDnSMLWEw%40mail.gmail.com.
