Thank you so much Clark. On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:03:14 PM UTC+5:30 Stuart Clark wrote:
> On 23/12/2020 14:59, Pramod Kumar wrote: > > Hi Clark, > > > > Thank you for quick reply. > > Actually, in my case, the application is generating some numbers (with > > timestamp) and pushing inside file. Now, this number has to be > > consider as counters and shown in prometheus along with the below > > timestamp. e.g. > > 2020-11-25 20:32:19.991(timestamp) 608(value) > > 2020-11-25 20:32:29.991(timestamp)1529(value) > > I want to show this timestamp insted of prometheus scrape time along > > with the counter value. > > That is not how Prometheus works. Prometheus is a scrape based metrics > system which records a new value at each scrape for all metrics, rather > than an event system where changes to values are made at times other > than the scrape time. If you want tighter timings around when changes > happened you should look to increase the scraping frequency. > > It would be possible to add an additional metric which gives the > timestamp of the last change (and it is quite common to have metrics of > that type). > > While the Prometheus text formal does include an optional timestamp > field it should not be used. It is there for a very specific edge case > where metrics are coming from another metrics system (such as AWS > CloudWatch) with some form of delay. Even in that situation the > timestamp should be increasing over scrapes. > > -- 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/af7f3dde-324f-415b-bb5b-b026ebbe2a7cn%40googlegroups.com.
