If you just need to know the scrape timestamps, you can query each
Prometheus instance like this:
up{instance="foo"}[1h]
This will return the timetsamps for each scrape over a given time range.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:11 AM [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Stuart, I am not sure I understand the log files question. I am not aware
> of any log files related to the scrape itself. We do have log files
> related to the exporters running on the server but they do not capture the
> scrapes. I am trying to get details of what is going on on the target
> server itself, not so concerned about what the Prometheus server has log
> wise.
>
> If you will add some more detail around the question, I will be glad to
> answer.
>
> On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 4:41:41 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I got the Grafana date problem solved and have the scrape time history
>> for the metric created - the info I needed.
>>
>> Thank you Stuart and Brian for the assistance.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 4:32:02 PM UTC-6 Stuart Clark wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/02/2022 22:29, [email protected] wrote:
>>> > I am not seeing the frequency is more often than I expect. I am being
>>> > told a log file is being created by the scrapes in a temp directory
>>> > every minute. I am saying it is not Prometheus. So now i have to
>>> > prove it is not Prometheus.
>>> >
>>> > As an alternate solution, I am trying to use the Prometheus timestamp
>>> > function on the metric being created by the scrape in Grafana to get
>>> > the time history of the metric as proof. The thought being the time
>>> > difference between the metric history is 3 minutes. But I am having
>>> > trouble getting the value of the timestamp function to act as an epoch
>>> > date. If I use the value returned in a web epoch translator, it
>>> > translate to the correct date. If I multiple the value by 1000, as
>>> > you do every epoch date in Grafana, it actually multiplies the value
>>> > rather than putting it in human readable date format.
>>> I'm not clear if you are getting logs from these requests or not? I'd
>>> expect any request logs to include the path being requested, time &
>>> source IP. What do you see?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stuart Clark
>>>
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