Note that the node_exporter also exports the timestamp of the files. On 07 Jul 20:24, Stuart Clark wrote: > On 07/07/2020 20:20, copocaneta wrote: > > This user at github asked this question > > <https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/issues/1284#issuecomment-605718841> > > that was not answered: > > > > judos commented on Mar 29 > > Can anyone explain why the node exporter does not support > > timestamps for custom metrics? So what else should I do for > > metrics that are not updated as often as the node_exporter is called ? > > > > > > I share the same question, can anyone else help here? > > > > What to do for metrics that are not updated as often as the > > node_exporter is called? > > > You can't use timestamps in that case anyway as you'd end up with duplicate > metric errors when scraping. > > You just set the metrics via the textfile collector. It doesn't matter how > frequently the node exporter is scraped. > > If you want to know the time a certain less frequent process happened use a > gauge where the value is a unix timestamp. > > > -- > 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/fa59b93e-d576-9a3a-a061-366d7633531c%40Jahingo.com.
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