On Monday, 29 June 2020 12:40:43 UTC+1, ryan woods wrote:
>
> I seem to be running into a strange issue where Prometheus is adding a
> 'metric_name' label to a timeseries but instead of updating the existing
> one it creates a new timeseries
>
That's standard behaviour. A timeseries is uniquely identified by its set
of labels: e.g. these are two different timeseries
foo{bar="xyz"}
foo{bar="xyz",baz="123"}
Therefore, if you change the labels, then you have made a new timeseries,
by definition. Over time, the old one will age out.
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