Julius - THANX I did exactly this, and it works! I think I was tricked by docker and the access right to the directory. The volume I mount is now owned by the same user as the one running pushgateway. without chmod 777 or controlling the user access I could not write.
Super - I got it. On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 1:02:05 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Hi Peter, I just tried it locally with Pushgateway built from HEAD and the > persistence across restarts works fine for me (pushed metrics are still > present after a restart). > > Maybe in your Docker setup the problem is that you are directly mounting > in a single file, could you try passing the surrounding directory as the > volume instead? See also > https://forums.docker.com/t/sharing-a-single-file-via-a-volume-mount-does-not-work-as-expected/57088 > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:56 AM Peter Toft <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is anyone using this feature? Seems to be broken to mo and I cannot see >> any logs from this. >> >> On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 5:39:07 PM UTC+1 Peter Toft wrote: >> >>> The default is 5 minutes which is super for me. But I do not see >>> anything happening >>> >>> >>> >>> On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 3:23:17 PM UTC+1 Julien Pivotto wrote: >>> >>>> I think that this is flushed on disk at regular interval: >>>> --persistence.interval >>>> >>>> On 15 Jan 06:08, Peter Toft wrote: >>>> > Thanx for the comment Julien. >>>> > I try exactly this with >>>> > pushgateway: >>>> > container_name: pushgateway >>>> > image: prom/pushgateway >>>> > ports: >>>> > - 9091:9091 >>>> > volumes: >>>> > - ./pushgateway.txt:/var/log/pushgateway.txt >>>> > command: >>>> > - '--web.enable-admin-api' >>>> > - '--persistence.file=/var/log/pushgateway.txt' >>>> > >>>> > but I tried to login to the docker instance - the >>>> /var/log/pushgateway.txt >>>> > is empty :-( >>>> > >>>> > On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 2:00:43 PM UTC+1 Julien Pivotto wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > You will need to use a docker volume to save the file across >>>> restarts. >>>> > > >>>> > > On 15 Jan 03:36, Peter Toft wrote: >>>> > > > Thanx Stuart >>>> > > > I use docker where I just now added - >>>> > > > '--persistence.file=/var/log/pushgateway.txt' >>>> > > > It does not seem to give persistence. >>>> > > > >>>> > > > version: '3.3' >>>> > > > services: >>>> > > > pushgateway: >>>> > > > container_name: pushgateway >>>> > > > image: prom/pushgateway >>>> > > > ports: >>>> > > > - 9091:9091 >>>> > > > volumes: >>>> > > > - ./pushgateway.txt:/var/log/pushgateway.txt >>>> > > > command: >>>> > > > - '--web.enable-admin-api' >>>> > > > - '--persistence.file=/var/log/pushgateway.txt' >>>> > > > prometheus: >>>> > > > container_name: prometheus >>>> > > > image: prom/prometheus >>>> > > > volumes: >>>> > > > - ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml >>>> > > > ports: >>>> > > > - 9090:9090 >>>> > > > command: >>>> > > > - '--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml' >>>> > > > - '--web.enable-admin-api' >>>> > > > - '--storage.tsdb.retention.time=1y' >>>> > > > grafana: >>>> > > > container_name: grafana >>>> > > > image: grafana/grafana >>>> > > > volumes: >>>> > > > - ./config/grafana.ini:/etc/grafana/grafana.ini >>>> > > > ports: >>>> > > > - 3000:3000 >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 11:02:59 AM UTC+1 Stuart Clark >>>> wrote: >>>> > > > >>>> > > > > The push gateway supports a persistence file via the >>>> > > --persistence.file >>>> > > > > parameter to allow cached metrics to survive restarts. >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > On 15 January 2021 09:46:18 GMT, Peter Toft <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> > > wrote: >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > >> Hi guys >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > >> I use a pushgateway -> prometheus -> grafana system to display >>>> > > simulation >>>> > > > >> metrics, and when I reboot the server I loose all the metrics >>>> I have >>>> > > in the >>>> > > > >> pushgateway. They appear when I have rerun my external test >>>> server >>>> > > pushing >>>> > > > >> metrics. >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > >> If I know that there is a reboot of the pushgateway coming. Is >>>> there >>>> > > a >>>> > > > >> simple'ish way to save and after a reboot restore these >>>> metrics? >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > >> Have a nice day >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > >> /Peter >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > >> >>>> > > > > -- >>>> > > > > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my >>>> brevity. >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > -- >>>> > > > 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/821d1de4-c59d-4cd9-938a-8e23dab2b2cbn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> > > . >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > -- >>>> > > Julien Pivotto >>>> > > @roidelapluie >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > 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/a2359aa2-ba16-4862-9831-6aefb7f7d88dn%40googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Julien Pivotto >>>> @roidelapluie >>>> >>> -- >> 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/dcecdd83-5fca-4fb5-a155-dbf477f1cce3n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/dcecdd83-5fca-4fb5-a155-dbf477f1cce3n%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. 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