This is called "backfilling": https://medium.com/tlvince/prometheus-backfilling-a92573eb712c
However, it's critical that you remember that all metrics are in Prometheus are numeric float64 values. Strings like "Alert-triggered" can only exist as labels on a timeseries. You definitely *don't* want timestamps as labels, as this will cause a cardinality explosion - since the unique combination of labels defines a timeseries, you'll end up with a new timeseries for every data point. If you don't understand this, then probably prometheus is not the database for you: you need an event database like Loki or Elasticsearch. However it would be OK to represent date created and date closed as *numeric* values on a metric, the number of seconds since the epoch. > -- 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/5b1dcc98-72ed-4838-9b78-798eece7ab21n%40googlegroups.com.
