If you're looking for a "percent of OK scrapes" you can use: avg_over_time(probe_success[$__range])
Then in Grafana, you can select "Percent (0 - 1)" to display the ratio as a percent. probe_success will always be returned by the blackbox_exporter is functioning properly. On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:26 PM Jennifer K <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically, I'm trying to fix an error that I am having when calculating > the percent. What i'm seeing: > sometimes the number of "good" scrapes is higher/smaller than the number > of scrapes in [$__range]. I think this is just because sometimes I get one > extra scrape compared to the number [$__range] scrapes and sometimes it's > spot on. I can't have a dashboard that sometimes shows the right value. > Therefore, trying to make this work and not show values over/under 100 > when the value should be 100%. I am trying to "fix" the denominator to be a > value from a rule instead of the [$__range]. > to do this I know I have "successful/unsuccessful probes" and "absent > data". I can quantify the probes using "probe_success" but when adding the > absent function to "probe_success" it doesn't work- I think it has > something to do with the vectors being different which is why I was trying > to use the ignore function. > > so... to answer your question- > I would want to count scrapes over the specified interval to include > absent data as well- basically if my scrape is set to 30s, an interval of 1 > hour should return 120 (to include successful/unsuccessful and absent data) > what is the best algorithm to use for that? > Thanks so much! > Jennifer > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:40 AM Julius Volz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Do you want to count across scraped instances at *one* point in time, or >> do you want to count scrapes of a / each single instance *over* time? >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:10 AM Jennifer K <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> to anyone that can help... >>> I've been trying to a total number of "scrapes" by adding successful, >>> unsuccessful and absent points together >>> this algorithm isn't working- any anyone explain why- >>> >>> (probe_success==bool 0) + (probe_success == bool 1) + ignoring (target) >>> sum without (target) (absent (probe_success)) >>> >>> should be simple, but I just can't get it to work- any help would >>> greatly be appreciated. >>> Thanks! >>> Jennifer >>> >>> -- >>> 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/a8b8a4a0-59e7-4087-bba6-a54252ebafdcn%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/a8b8a4a0-59e7-4087-bba6-a54252ebafdcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> Julius Volz >> PromLabs - promlabs.com >> > -- > 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/CAJ2Bn3q9xEADOb0r_nxOx4fXbGBYRo3tU%2B0nE8AtWD%2BqoiPCzw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAJ2Bn3q9xEADOb0r_nxOx4fXbGBYRo3tU%2B0nE8AtWD%2BqoiPCzw%40mail.gmail.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/CABbyFmqyphKcJS2eK10CQkzz8t3D3t3LDtbyo%3D4%2BuomygXNC8A%40mail.gmail.com.
