The statsd exporter works for this but has the downside that you are mapping through a different metric model. It's okay but can be annoying.
There is also an aggregating pushgateway that may be useful if this is the route you want to go: https://github.com/weaveworks/prom-aggregation-gateway /MR On Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 22:08 Chris Siebenmann < [email protected]> wrote: > > Prometheus' answer is to construct time series of the number of runs, > > and cumulative run time, starting at some arbitrary point in time > > (together these are a summary). By looking at the change in these > > numbers over time, we can calculate the duty cycle (what fraction of > > time is spent running vs. idle) or average run time (cumulative run > > time divided by the number of runs in the same timeframe). Note that > > this is all phrased in terms of numbers that exist continuously (time > > spent since …) rather than individual events (time spent in the > > fifteenth run). > > > > Unfortunately there is no trivial way to keep these accumulated > > counters over multiple process invocations since the client libraries > > only hold them in memory. Ideally, you could get them from the > > long-running process that starts these individual runs. If that is not > > possible, the third party aggregating pushgateway may be useful to > > you. > > Probably the easiest way to generate cumulative counters from separate > one-time jobs is to use the statsd gateway, the statsd_exporter. Statsd > supports incrementing persistent counters and it has a very easy wire > protocol to talk to: > > echo 'our.counter:+3|c|#label1:aname,area:prod' | nc statsd-host 9125 > > (There are several ways to add labels; see the statsd_exporter > readme at https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter ) > > This would let you keep track of the total time jobs have taken to > run and the count of jobs run, among other things. I think you can > even do histograms through statsd_exporter if you want to (with the > statsd exporter doing the hard work for your script). > > Pushgateway is easier to deal with in a number of ways, but it only > supports setting metrics; you can't update them the way you can with > the statsd exporter. > > - cks > -- 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/CAMV%3D_gbro4XqN2EcdLJKLrjohLDPw_U3zmhO2K3gUzkYGMAVtw%40mail.gmail.com.
