Thanks. Unfortunately, exporting and scraping the same values have become costly for us. We have metrics endpoints of 50MB+, and scraping have begun to time out more and more often.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 3:01 PM Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: > There's no need to optimise this. Just keep scraping the same value > repeatedly. Prometheus' delta compression is highly efficient, extremely > so when the values don't change: the delta between adjacent values is zero, > and the delta between scrape timestamps is roughly constant. Besides, > storage these days is very cheap. > > It's also semantically useful to keep all the scrapes. There is a > difference between "the value was known to be X at time T", and "the value > at time T was not recorded; maybe it was the same as at time T-1, maybe not" > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/prometheus-users/LTP8_hOgfz0/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/9f5c94dc-1047-49df-a839-b14f4b997d4ao%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/9f5c94dc-1047-49df-a839-b14f4b997d4ao%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/CALeYO%3DLbhwBNdKefB1SS2FKHtEbcWkowwBbLL29x-%3Ddw4zSDgQ%40mail.gmail.com.
